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 House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
12. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
13. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
14. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
15. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
16. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
17. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
18. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
19. Railway Children authors home @ Stratfield House, Baring Road, Lewisham, London
20. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
21. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
22. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
23. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
24. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
25. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
26. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
27. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
28. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
29. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
30. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
31. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
32. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
33. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
34. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
35. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
36. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
37. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
38. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
39. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
40. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Home @ 9 Bywater Street, Kensington, London
41. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
42. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
43. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
44. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
45. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
46. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
47. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
48. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
49. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
50. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
51. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
52. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
53. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
54. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
55. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
56. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
57. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
58. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
59. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
60. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
61. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
62. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
63. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
64. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
65. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
66. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
67. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
68. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
69. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
70. Self Help Man lived here @ 8 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, London
71. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
72. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
73. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
74. Jackie Collins Home @ Hamilton Terrace, Swiss Cottage
75. The London Library @ 14 St James' Square
76. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
77. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
78. The Riceyman Steps @ To Granville Place, London
79. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
80. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
81. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
82. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
83. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
84. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
85. Roald Dahl's Studio @ 8 Turnchapel Mews, Clapham
86. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
87. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
88. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
89. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
90. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
91. Evelyn Waugh lived here @ 145 North End Road, Golders Green
92. A.C. Doyle The Eye Specialist @ 2 Devonshire Place
93. Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde @ St John's Hill, Clapham
94. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
95. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
96. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
97. Time to get Trolleyed @ 73A Redchurch Street, Old Street
98. Non-Roman Bath @ 5 Strand Lane, London
99. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
100. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
101. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
102. Charles Kingsley lived here @ 56 Old Church Street, Chelsea
103. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
104. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
105. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
106. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
107. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
108. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
109. John Buchan lived here @ 76 Portland Place, Marylebone, London
110. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing