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. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
13. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
14. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
15. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
16. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
17. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
18. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
19. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
20. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
21. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
22. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
23. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
24. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
25. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
26. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
27. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
28. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
29. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
30. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
31. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
32. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
33. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
34. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
35. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
36. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
37. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
38. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
39. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
40. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
41. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
42. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
43. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
44. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
45. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
46. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
47. Canada Water Super-Library @ 21 Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe
48. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
49. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
50. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
51. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
52. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
53. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
54. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
55. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
56. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
57. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
58. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
59. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
60. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
61. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
62. Temple Church @ Temple, London
63. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
64. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
65. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
66. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
67. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
68. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
69. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
70. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
71. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
72. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
73. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
74. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
75. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
76. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
77. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
78. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
79. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
80. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
81. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
82. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
83. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
84. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
85. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
86. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
87. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
88. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
89. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
90. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
91. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
92. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
93. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
94. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
95. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
96. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
97. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
98. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
99. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
100. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
101. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
102. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
103. The First ever London Theatre @ 86-88 Curtain Road
104. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
105. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
106. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
107. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
108. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
109. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
110. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London