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 worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
12. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
13. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
14. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
15. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
16. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
17. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
18. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
19. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
20. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
21. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
22. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
23. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
24. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
25. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
26. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
27. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
28. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
29. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
30. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
31. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
32. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
33. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
34. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
35. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
36. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
37. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
38. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
39. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
40. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
41. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
42. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
43. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
44. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
45. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
46. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
47. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
48. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
49. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
50. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
51. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
52. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
53. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
54. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
55. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
56. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
57. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
58. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
59. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
60. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
61. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
62. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
63. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
64. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
65. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
66. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
67. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
68. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
69. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
70. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
71. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
72. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
73. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
74. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
75. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
76. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
77. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
78. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
79. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
80. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
81. Author Joseph Conrad lived here @ 17 Gillingham Street, Westminster, London
82. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
83. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
84. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
85. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
86. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
87. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
88. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
89. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
90. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
91. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
92. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
93. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
94. HG Wells was born here @ Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley
95. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
96. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
97. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
98. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
99. Railway Children authors home @ Stratfield House, Baring Road, Lewisham, London
100. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
101. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
102. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
103. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
104. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
105. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
106. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
107. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
108. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
109. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
110. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London