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. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
12. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
13. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
14. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
15. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
16. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
17. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
18. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
19. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
20. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
21. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
22. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
23. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
24. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
25. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
26. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
27. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
28. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
29. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
30. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
31. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
32. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Home @ 9 Bywater Street, Kensington, London
33. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
34. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
35. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
36. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
37. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
38. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
39. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
40. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
41. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
42. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
43. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
44. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
45. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
46. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
47. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
48. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
49. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
50. Charles Williams born here @ 3 Caedmon Road, Islington, London
51. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
52. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
53. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
54. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
55. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
56. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
57. Roald Dahl's Studio @ 8 Turnchapel Mews, Clapham
58. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
59. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
60. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
61. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
62. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
63. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
64. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
65. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
66. Writer Bret Harte lived here @ 74 Lancaster Gate, London
67. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
68. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
69. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
70. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
71. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
72. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
73. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
74. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
75. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
76. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
77. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
78. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
79. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
80. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
81. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
82. Daniel Defoe lived here @ 95 Stoke Newington Church Street, London
83. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
84. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
85. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
86. Railway Children authors home @ Stratfield House, Baring Road, Lewisham, London
87. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
88. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
89. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
90. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
91. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
92. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
93. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
94. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
95. The Wind in Holland Park @ 16 Phillimore Place, Holland Park
96. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
97. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
98. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
99. Birthplace of GK Chesterton @ 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill
100. Charles and Mary Lamb @ 17 Gentlemans Row, Enfield
101. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
102. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
103. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
104. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
105. Charles Kingsley lived here @ 56 Old Church Street, Chelsea
106. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
107. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
108. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
109. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
110. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green