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. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
12. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
13. Peter the Great trashed here @ 146 Deptford High Street, London
14. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
15. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
16. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
17. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
18. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
19. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
20. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
21. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
22. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
23. Anthony Hopkins Odd Coincidence @ Leicester Square Tube station, London
24. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
25. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
26. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
27. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
28. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
29. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
30. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
31. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
32. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
33. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
34. The Elephant and Castle Story @ Elephant and Castle, Southwark, London
35. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
36. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
37. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
38. Charles and Mary Lamb @ 17 Gentlemans Row, Enfield
39. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
40. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
41. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
42. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
43. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
44. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
45. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
46. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
47. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
48. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
49. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
50. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
51. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
52. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
53. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
54. William Beckford born here @ 22 Soho Square, London
55. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
56. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London
57. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
58. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
59. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
60. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
61. Walter Pater lived here @ 12 Earls Terrace, Kensington
62. The Albany, home to AJ Raffles @ Albany Court, St James, London
63. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
64. CS Forester lived here @ 58 Underhill Road, East Dulwich
65. Agatha Christie's First Home @ 47-48 Campden Street, Kensington
66. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
67. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
68. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
69. Bram Stoker lived here @ 18 St Leonards Terrace, Chelsea
70. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
71. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
72. Cash in the Wind @ The Bank Of England
73. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
74. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
75. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
76. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
77. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
78. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
79. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
80. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
81. Mervyn Peake lived here @ 1 Drayton Gardens, London
82. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
83. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
84. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
85. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
86. George Orwell Lived here @ 27b Canonbury Square, Islington
87. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
88. HG Wells lived here @ 13 Hanover Terrace, Green Park, London
89. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
90. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
91. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
92. Author Laurence Sterne died here @ 41 Old Bond Street
93. The Holly Bush @ 22 Holly Mount, Hampstead
94. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
95. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
96. Home of Ian Fleming @ 22 Ebury Street, Westminster
97. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
98. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
99. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
100. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
101. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
102. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
103. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
104. Shakespeare, The Lodger @ Monkswell Street, London Wall, London
105. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
106. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
107. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
108. Samuel Beckett lived here @ 34 Gertrude Street, Chelsea
109. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
110. Author Joseph Conrad lived here @ 17 Gillingham Street, Westminster, London