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. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
12. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
13. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
14. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
15. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
16. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
17. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
18. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
19. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
20. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
21. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
22. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
23. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
24. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
25. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
26. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
27. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
28. Birthplace of GK Chesterton @ 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill
29. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
30. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
31. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
32. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
33. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
34. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
35. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
36. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
37. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
38. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
39. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
40. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
41. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
42. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
43. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
44. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
45. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
46. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
47. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
48. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
49. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
50. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
51. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
52. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
53. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
54. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
55. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
56. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
57. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
58. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
59. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
60. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
61. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
62. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
63. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
64. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
65. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
66. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
67. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
68. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
69. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
70. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
71. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
72. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
73. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
74. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
75. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
76. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
77. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
78. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
79. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
80. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
81. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
82. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
83. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
84. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
85. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
86. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
87. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
88. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
89. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
90. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
91. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
92. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
93. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
94. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
95. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
96. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
97. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
98. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
99. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London
100. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
101. Home to Three Men in a Boat @ 91-104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road
102. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
103. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
104. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
105. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
106. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
107. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
108. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
109. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
110. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London