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 Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
12. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
13. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
14. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
15. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
16. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
17. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
18. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
19. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
20. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
21. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
22. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
23. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
24. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
25. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
26. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
27. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
28. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
29. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
30. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
31. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
32. Punch Tavern @ 95 Fleet Street
33. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
34. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
35. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
36. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
37. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
38. Self Help Man lived here @ 8 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, London
39. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
40. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
41. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
42. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
43. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
44. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
45. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
46. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
47. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
48. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
49. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
50. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
51. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
52. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
53. Dylan Thomas' House of Horror @ 54 Delancey Street, Camden
54. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
55. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
56. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
57. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
58. Architect Pevsner lived here @ 2 Wildwood Terrace, Hampstead, London
59. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
60. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
61. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
62. The Hogwart Express @ Platform 9, King's Cross Station
63. Canonbury Towers @ Canonbury Place, Islington
64. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
65. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
66. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
67. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
68. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
69. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
70. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
71. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
72. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
73. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
74. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
75. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
76. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
77. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
78. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
79. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
80. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
81. George Orwell Lived here @ 27b Canonbury Square, Islington
82. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
83. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
84. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
85. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
86. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
87. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
88. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
89. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
90. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
91. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
92. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
93. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
94. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
95. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
96. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
97. The Wind in Holland Park @ 16 Phillimore Place, Holland Park
98. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
99. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
100. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Home @ 9 Bywater Street, Kensington, London
101. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
102. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
103. Radical booksellers since 1945 @ 5 Caledonian Road
104. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
105. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
106. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
107. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
108. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
109. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
110. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford