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. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
12. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
13. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
14. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
15. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
16. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
17. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
18. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
19. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
20. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
21. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
22. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
23. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
24. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
25. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
26. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
27. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
28. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
29. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
30. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
31. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
32. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
33. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
34. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
35. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
36. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
37. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
38. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
39. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
40. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
41. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
42. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
43. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
44. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
45. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
46. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
47. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
48. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
49. Charles Dickens 'Oliver Twist' @ 22 Cleveland Street
50. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
51. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
52. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
53. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
54. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
55. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
56. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
57. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
58. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
59. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
60. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
61. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
62. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
63. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
64. Railway Children authors home @ Stratfield House, Baring Road, Lewisham, London
65. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
66. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
67. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
68. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
69. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
70. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
71. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
72. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
73. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
74. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
75. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
76. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
77. Architect Pevsner lived here @ 2 Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, London
78. Strawberry Hill House @ 268 Waldegrave Road, Twickenham
79. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
80. Highgate Hill's Memorial Story @ Highgate Hill
81. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
82. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
83. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
84. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
85. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
86. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
87. The Riceyman Steps @ To Granville Place, London
88. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
89. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
90. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
91. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
92. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
93. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
94. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
95. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
96. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
97. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
98. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
99. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
100. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
101. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
102. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
103. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
104. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
105. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
106. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
107. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
108. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
109. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
110. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London