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. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
12. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
13. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
14. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
15. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
16. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
17. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
18. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
19. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
20. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
21. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
22. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
23. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
24. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
25. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
26. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
27. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
28. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
29. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
30. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
31. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
32. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
33. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
34. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
35. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
36. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
37. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
38. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
39. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
40. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
41. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
42. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
43. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
44. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
45. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
46. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
47. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
48. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
49. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
50. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
51. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
52. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
53. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
54. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
55. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
56. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
57. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
58. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
59. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
60. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
61. Grub Street @ Milton Street, London
62. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
63. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
64. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
65. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
66. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
67. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
68. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
69. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
70. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
71. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
72. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
73. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
74. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
75. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
76. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
77. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
78. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
79. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
80. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
81. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
82. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
83. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
84. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
85. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
86. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
87. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
88. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
89. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
90. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
91. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
92. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
93. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
94. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
95. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
96. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
97. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
98. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
99. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
100. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
101. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
102. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
103. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
104. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
105. Temple Church @ Temple, London
106. Writer Bret Harte lived here @ 74 Lancaster Gate, London
107. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
108. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
109. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
110. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London