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. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
12. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
13. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
14. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
15. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
16. Da Vinci Code: Opus Dei @ 5 Orme Court, Westminster, London
17. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
18. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
19. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
20. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
21. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
22. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
23. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
24. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
25. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
26. Famous Drinkers to die for @ 127 Gloucester Road, Kensington
27. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
28. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
29. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
30. Tragic house of Karl Marx @ 28 Dean Street, Soho, London
31. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
32. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
33. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
34. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
35. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
36. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
37. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
38. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
39. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
40. Peter Cook's Baby Lives On @ 6 Carlisle Street
41. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
42. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
43. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
44. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
45. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
46. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
47. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
48. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
49. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
50. Legend of Fu Manchu @ Gill Street, Limehouse, London
51. Home to Three Men in a Boat @ 91-104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road
52. Frankenstein author born here @ Polygon Road, Euston
53. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
54. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
55. Daphne du Maurier lived here @ Cannon Cottage, Well Road, Hampstead
56. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
57. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
58. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
59. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
60. Gothic Author Riddell lived here @ East Gate Lodge, St Ann's Road, Tottenham
61. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
62. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
63. Willie Rushton was born here @ Cromwell Road, Earl's Court
64. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
65. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
66. Doves Bindery and Press @ 15 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
67. The Original Media Mogul: Elias @ 19-24 Floral Street, Covent Garden, London
68. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
69. Poet Dylan Thomas lived here @ 5 Redcliffe Street, Earls Court
70. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
71. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
72. Vampire author lived here @ 38 Great Pulteney Street, London
73. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
74. London's First Railway Bookstall @ Euston Station
75. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
76. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
77. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
78. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
79. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College
80. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
81. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
82. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
83. John Evelyn's House @ 14 Dover Street, Mayfair
84. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
85. Goldsmith and Blackstone @ 2 Brick Court, Temple, London
86. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
87. The Great Bard's Theatre @ New Inn Broadway, off Gt Eastern Street
88. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
89. A meeting of Literary Minds @ 87-89 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
90. An Art & Print Treasure @ Bride Lane, Fleet Street
91. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
92. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
93. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
94. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
95. Allan Chappelow Murder @ 9 Downshire Hill, Hampstead
96. William Beckford born here @ 22 Soho Square, London
97. Mark Twain's death @ 23 Tedworth Square, Chelsea, London
98. Samuel Pepys birthplace @ Salisbury Court, Fleet Street
99. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
100. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
101. Lawrence of Arabia's Land @ Pole Hill, Chingford
102. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
103. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
104. Mrs Beeton was born here @ 24 Milk Street, Cheapside, London
105. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
106. World's Biggest Plum Pudding! @ 17 Easycheap, London
107. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
108. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
109. Ripping Yarns @ 355 Archway Road, Highgate
110. Bram Stoker's Heroic Deed @ 27 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London