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 Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
12. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
13. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
14. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
15. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
16. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
17. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
18. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
19. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
20. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
21. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
22. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
23. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
24. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
25. Canada Water Super-Library @ 21 Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe
26. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
27. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
28. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
29. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
30. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
31. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
32. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
33. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
34. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
35. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
36. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
37. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
38. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
39. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
40. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
41. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
42. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
43. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
44. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
45. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
46. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
47. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
48. The London Library @ 14 St James' Square
49. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
50. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
51. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
52. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
53. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
54. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
55. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
56. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
57. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
58. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
59. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
60. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
61. William Beckford born here @ 22 Soho Square, London
62. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
63. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
64. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
65. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
66. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
67. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
68. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
69. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
70. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
71. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
72. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
73. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
74. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
75. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
76. Temple Church @ Temple, London
77. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
78. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
79. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
80. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
81. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
82. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
83. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
84. Charles and Mary Lamb @ 17 Gentlemans Row, Enfield
85. Lytton Strachey lived here @ 51 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
86. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
87. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
88. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
89. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
90. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
91. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
92. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
93. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
94. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
95. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
96. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
97. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
98. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
99. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
100. HG Wells was born here @ Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley
101. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
102. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
103. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
104. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
105. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
106. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
107. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
108. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
109. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
110. Birthplace of Georgette Heyer @ 103 Woodside, Wimbledon