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. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
12. William Harnett Blanch @ 55 Denman Road, Peckham
13. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
14. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
15. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
16. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
17. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
18. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
19. George Orwell's House @ Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
20. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
21. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
22. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
23. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
24. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
25. Siegfried Sassoon lived here @ 23 Campden Hill Square
26. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
27. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
28. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
29. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
30. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
31. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
32. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
33. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
34. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
35. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
36. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
37. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
38. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
39. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
40. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
41. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
42. Chelsea's Anglesea Arms @ 15 Selwood Terrace, Chelsea
43. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
44. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
45. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
46. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
47. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
48. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
49. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
50. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
51. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
52. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
53. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
54. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
55. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
56. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
57. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
58. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
59. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
60. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
61. The London Library @ 14 St James' Square
62. Writer Haggard lived here @ 69 Gunterstone Road, Hammersmith
63. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
64. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
65. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
66. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
67. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
68. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
69. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
70. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
71. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
72. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
73. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
74. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
75. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
76. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
77. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
78. William Beckford born here @ 22 Soho Square, London
79. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
80. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
81. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
82. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
83. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
84. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
85. The Riceyman Steps @ To Granville Place, London
86. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
87. TS Eliot lived here @ 33 Courtfield Road, Kensington, London
88. Canada Water Super-Library @ 21 Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe
89. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
90. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
91. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
92. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
93. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
94. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
95. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
96. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
97. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
98. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
99. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
100. Daily News to Remember @ 1 Pennington Street
101. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
102. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
103. Author Joseph Conrad lived here @ 17 Gillingham Street, Westminster, London
104. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
105. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
106. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
107. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
108. John Buchan lived here @ 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, London
109. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
110. Dylan Thomas' House of Horror @ 54 Delancey Street, Camden