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. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
12. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
13. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
14. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
15. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
16. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
17. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
18. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
19. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
20. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
21. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
22. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
23. Canada Water Super-Library @ 21 Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe
24. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
25. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
26. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
27. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
28. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
29. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
30. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
31. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
32. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
33. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
34. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
35. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
36. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
37. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
38. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
39. The London Library @ 14 St James' Square
40. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
41. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
42. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
43. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
44. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
45. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
46. Home of Angela Carter @ 107 The Chase, Clapham
47. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
48. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
49. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
50. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
51. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
52. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
53. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
54. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
55. Temple Church @ Temple, London
56. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
57. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
58. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
59. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
60. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
61. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
62. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
63. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
64. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
65. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
66. William Beckford born here @ 22 Soho Square, London
67. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
68. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
69. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
70. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
71. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
72. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
73. The Man who knew everything @ 48 Welbeck Street, Westminster
74. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
75. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
76. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
77. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
78. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
79. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
80. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
81. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
82. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
83. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
84. A Funny Man schooled here @ The Ride, Brentford
85. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
86. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
87. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
88. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
89. Home of Guinness Book of Records @ 107 Fleet Street
90. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
91. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
92. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
93. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
94. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
95. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
96. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
97. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
98. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
99. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
100. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
101. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
102. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
103. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
104. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
105. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
106. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
107. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
108. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
109. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
110. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London