literary Top Literary-related places to visit in London.

Top Literary-related places to visit in London.


It's a magnet is London, always has been, it's always been the centre of the publishing world and London is awash with places that Dicken's lived, Shakespeare played, and many authors were inspired.

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11. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
12. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
13. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
14. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
15. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
16. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
17. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
18. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
19. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
20. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
21. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
22. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
23. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
24. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
25. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
26. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
27. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
28. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
29. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
30. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
31. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
32. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
33. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
34. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
35. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
36. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
37. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
38. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
39. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
40. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
41. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
42. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
43. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
44. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
45. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
46. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
47. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
48. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
49. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
50. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
51. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
52. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
53. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
54. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
55. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
56. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
57. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
58. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
59. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
60. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
61. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
62. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
63. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
64. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
65. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
66. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
67. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
68. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
69. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
70. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
71. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
72. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
73. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
74. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
75. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
76. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
77. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
78. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
79. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
80. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
81. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
82. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
83. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
84. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
85. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
86. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
87. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
88. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
89. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
90. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
91. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
92. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
93. Writer Haggard lived here @ 69 Gunterstone Road, Hammersmith
94. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
95. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
96. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
97. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
98. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
99. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
100. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
101. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
102. Temple Church @ Temple, London
103. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
104. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
105. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
106. A Monastery and a Bard @ Blackfriars
107. Chelsea's Anglesea Arms @ 15 Selwood Terrace, Chelsea
108. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
109. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
110. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London