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 Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
12. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
13. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
14. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
15. Canada Water Super-Library @ 21 Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe
16. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
17. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
18. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
19. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
20. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
21. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
22. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
23. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
24. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
25. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
26. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
27. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
28. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
29. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
30. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
31. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
32. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
33. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
34. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
35. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
36. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
37. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
38. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
39. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
40. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
41. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
42. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
43. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
44. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
45. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
46. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
47. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
48. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
49. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
50. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
51. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
52. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
53. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
54. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
55. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
56. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
57. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
58. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
59. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
60. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
61. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
62. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
63. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
64. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
65. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
66. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
67. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
68. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
69. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
70. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
71. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
72. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
73. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
74. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
75. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
76. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
77. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
78. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
79. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
80. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
81. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
82. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
83. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
84. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
85. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
86. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
87. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
88. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
89. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
90. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
91. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
92. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
93. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
94. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
95. Dylan Thomas' House of Horror @ 54 Delancey Street, Camden
96. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
97. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
98. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
99. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
100. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
101. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
102. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
103. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
104. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
105. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
106. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
107. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
108. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
109. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
110. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court