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. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
13. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
14. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
15. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
16. The Boot @ 116 Cromer St, London
17. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
18. Hazlitt's Hotel @ 6 Frith Street, Soho, London
19. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
20. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
21. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
22. Saffron Hill @ Saffron Hill, Farringdon
23. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
24. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
25. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
26. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
27. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
28. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
29. Chaucer Lived Over the Aldgate @ 2 Aldgate High Street, London
30. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
31. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
32. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
33. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
34. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
35. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
36. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
37. The Famous Berners Street Hoax @ 54 Berners Street, London
38. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
39. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
40. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
41. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
42. The Original Hatchard's @ 173 Piccadilly, London
43. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
44. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
45. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
46. Charles Dickens Coffee House @ 26 Wellington Street, Covent Garden
47. Edward Leeson died here @ PC World, Ruislip Road, Ruislip
48. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
49. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
50. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
51. The Pillars of Hercules @ 7 Greek St, London
52. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
53. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
54. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
55. Berry Bros & Rudd Ltd @ 3 St. James's Street, Lambeth
56. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
57. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
58. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
59. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
60. Enid Bagnold's Cow @ 29 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London
61. London's Longest Pub? @ 25 London Street
62. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
63. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
64. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
65. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
66. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
67. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
68. Home of Noel Coward @ 17 Gerald Road, Belgravia, London
69. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
70. Poet Stevie Smith's House @ 1 Avondale Road, Palmers Green
71. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's House @ 2 Devonshire Place, London
72. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
73. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
74. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
75. Gordons... Wine Specialist @ 47 Villiers Street
76. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
77. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
78. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
79. AA Milne lived here @ 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea
80. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
81. William Morris' Georgian Retreat @ 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
82. Pepys's Ghost @ 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, London
83. Dickens 1st Love lived here @ 1 Lombard Street, London
84. Cliveden and the Profumo Affair @ Taplow, Maidenhead
85. Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque @ 16 Holles Street, London
86. Woolf and Shaw lived here @ 29 Fitzroy Square
87. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
88. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
89. Well Hall Pleasaunce @ Well Hall Road, Eltham
90. Don't be Daunted @ 83 Marylebone High Street
91. St Barnabas & the Penny Chute @ 1 Greek Street, Soho, London
92. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
93. Oliver Twist's Literary Home @ 48 Doughty Street, off Gray's Inn Road
94. Author Nevil Shute born here @ 16 Somerset Road, West Ealing
95. The Wheatsheaf @ 25 Rathbone Place
96. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
97. Canada Water Super-Library @ 21 Surrey Quays Road, Rotherhithe
98. The Rainbow Coffee House @ 16 Fleet Street
99. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
100. St George the Martyr and Dickens @ Borough High Street, Southwark, London
101. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
102. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
103. Barn Elms Kit Cat House @ Barn Elms, Putney, London
104. William Morris' Red House @ Red House Lane
105. 142 The Strand @ 142 The Strand, London
106. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
107. Charles Lamb lived here @ 20 Russell Street, Covent Garden
108. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
109. Once home to Mr Stamp @ Canal Road, Bow
110. Keats House @ Keats Grove, Hampstead, London