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. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
12. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
13. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
14. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
15. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
16. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
17. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
18. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
19. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
20. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
21. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
22. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
23. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
24. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
25. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
26. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
27. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
28. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
29. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
30. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
31. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
32. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
33. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
34. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
35. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
36. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
37. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
38. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
39. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
40. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
41. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
42. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
43. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
44. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
45. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
46. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
47. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
48. Author Wilkie Collins lived here @ 90 Gloucester Place (now 65)
49. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
50. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
51. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
52. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
53. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
54. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
55. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
56. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
57. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
58. HG Wells lived here @ 13 Hanover Terrace, Green Park, London
59. George Orwell's House @ Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
60. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
61. Karl Popper lived here @ 16 Burlington Rise, East Barnet, London
62. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
63. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
64. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
65. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
66. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
67. WH Smith lived here @ 12c Hyde Park Street, Bayswater
68. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
69. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
70. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
71. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
72. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
73. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
74. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
75. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
76. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
77. Architect Pevsner lived here @ 2 Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, London
78. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
79. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
80. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
81. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
82. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
83. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
84. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
85. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
86. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
87. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
88. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
89. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
90. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
91. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
92. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
93. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
94. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
95. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
96. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
97. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
98. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
99. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
100. George Bernard Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
101. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
102. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
103. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
104. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
105. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
106. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
107. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
108. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
109. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
110. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London