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. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
12. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
13. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
14. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
15. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
16. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
17. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
18. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
19. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
20. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
21. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
22. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
23. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
24. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
25. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
26. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
27. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
28. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
29. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
30. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
31. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
32. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
33. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
34. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
35. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
36. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
37. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
38. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
39. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
40. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
41. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
42. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
43. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
44. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
45. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
46. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
47. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
48. George Orwell's House @ Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
49. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
50. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
51. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
52. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
53. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
54. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
55. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
56. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
57. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
58. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
59. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
60. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
61. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
62. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
63. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
64. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
65. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
66. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
67. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
68. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
69. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
70. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
71. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
72. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
73. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
74. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
75. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
76. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
77. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
78. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
79. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
80. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
81. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
82. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
83. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
84. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
85. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
86. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
87. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
88. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
89. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
90. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
91. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
92. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
93. Author Wilkie Collins lived here @ 90 Gloucester Place (now 65)
94. Architect Pevsner lived here @ 2 Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, London
95. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
96. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
97. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
98. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
99. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
100. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
101. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
102. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
103. JG Ballard's Millenium People @ Chelsea Marina Harbour, Fulham, London
104. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
105. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
106. John Buchan lived here @ 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, London
107. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
108. Chelsea's Anglesea Arms @ 15 Selwood Terrace, Chelsea
109. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
110. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow