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. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
12. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
13. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
14. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
15. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
16. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
17. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
18. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
19. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
20. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
21. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
22. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
23. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
24. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
25. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
26. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese @ 145 Fleet St
27. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
28. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
29. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
30. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
31. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
32. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
33. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
34. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
35. Quercus - Publishing Revelation @ 21 Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury
36. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
37. Home of poet Robert Browning @ 19 Warwick Crescent, Paddington, London
38. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
39. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
40. Creator of the A-Z born here @ 3 Court Lane Gardens, East Dulwich, London
41. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
42. WT Stead lived here @ 5 Smith Square, Westminster, London
43. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
44. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
45. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
46. William Blake lived here. @ 28 Poland Street, London
47. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
48. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
49. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
50. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
51. Charing Cross Book Worms @ Charing Cross Road
52. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
53. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
54. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
55. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
56. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
57. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
58. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
59. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
60. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
61. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
62. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
63. Sir Clement the Great @ Boundary Road, St John's Wood
64. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
65. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
66. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
67. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
68. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
69. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
70. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
71. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
72. Free Learning for All @ Barnard's Inn Hall
73. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
74. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
75. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
76. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
77. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
78. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
79. James Joyce lived here @ 28b Campden Grove, Kensington, London
80. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
81. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
82. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
83. Sir John Betjeman @ 31 Highgate West Hill, Highgate, Highgate
84. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
85. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
86. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
87. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
88. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
89. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
90. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
91. Well Read in the North @ 218 Eversholt Street
92. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
93. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
94. Sherlock Holmes Remembered @ Baker Street Tube Station
95. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
96. Drama here since 1948 @ Beech Walk, Crayford
97. Temple Church @ Temple, London
98. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
99. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
100. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
101. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
102. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
103. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
104. Gertrude Bells Home @ 95 Sloane Street, Chelsea
105. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
106. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
107. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
108. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
109. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
110. Wynkyn de Worde, Fleet St Father @ Stationer's Hall, St Brides, London