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. Victoria Tower @ Westminster
12. The worst street in London @ Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London
13. Shakespeare's Ireland Yard @ Ireland Yard, Blackfriars, London
14. Mrs Lovett's Pie House @ Bell Yard, London
15. Bleeding Heart Yard @ Bleeding Heart Yard, Hatton Garden, London
16. Karl Marx Resting Place @ Highgate Cemetery, Highgate, London
17. The Turks Head Literary Club @ 9 Gerrard Street, Soho, London
18. Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit @ Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, London
19. Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here @ 5 Woburn Walk, Bloomsbury, London
20. The Old Curiosity Shop @ 13-14 Portsmouth Street, London
21. The Wig and Pen Club @ 230 The Strand, Westminster, London
22. Charles Dickens Childhood Home @ 16 Bayham Street
23. The Grapes @ 76 Narrow Street, Limehouse, London
24. The Fitzroy Tavern @ 16 Charlotte Strreet
25. The Red Lion of Soho @ 20 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London
26. Virginia Woolf's Pad @ 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury
27. Rossetti's Grave Digging @ Highgate Cemetery, London
28. Voltaire lived and wrote here @ 10 Maiden Lane, Westminster, London
29. London's Finest Recordshop @ 1 Earlham Street
30. News International HQ @ Thomas More Square, Pennington Street, Wapping
31. Mary Poppins author lived here @ 50 Smith Street, Chelsea
32. The George and Vulture @ 3 Castle Court, London
33. Virginia Woolf born here @ 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington
34. Trafalgar Tavern @ Park Row, Greenwich, London
35. Royalty House & Theatre @ 72-74 Dean Street, Soho, London
36. Edward Lear lived here @ 15 Stratford Place, Westminster
37. The Edgar Wallace @ 40 Essex Street, London
38. The Real Scrooge lived here @ 18 Great Marlborough Street
39. Orwell's Booklovers Corner @ 1 South End Road, Hampstead, London
40. The Dove @ 19 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
41. The House by the Thames @ 49 Bankside, Cardinal's Wharf, Southwark, London
42. Phileas Fogg lived here! @ 7 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London
43. Author Mary Shelley lived here @ 24 Chester Square, Belgravia
44. John Harvards Tavern @ 103 Borough High Street, Southwark, London
45. Rimbaud and Verlaines House @ 8 Royal College Street, Camden, London
46. Ann Radcliffe lived here @ 7 Buckingham Gate, Pimlico
47. The French House @ 49 Dean Street, Soho
48. Oscar Wilde Statue @ Charing Cross, London
49. Whistler's House @ 96 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
50. HG Wells+Peter Cook lived here @ 17 Church Row, Hampstead, London
51. Dr Johnson's Dictionary House @ 17 Gough Square, London
52. William Morris's Furniture @ 17 Red Lion Square, Bloomsbury, London
53. John Ruskin born here @ 54 Hunter Street, Holborn
54. George Orwell taught here @ The Fountain House Hotel, 116-118 Church Road, H
55. Novelist James Hilton lived here @ 42 Oak Hill Gardens, Woodford Green
56. Author JG Ballard lived here @ 36 Old Charlton Road, Shepperton
57. Ernest Dowson Died Here @ 159 Sangley Road, Catford
58. Last Gay Bookshop @ 66 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury
59. Jacobs Island & Oliver Twist @ off Jacob Street
60. Bram Stoker's first London home @ 7 Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London
61. 2 Blokes, 1 Bookshop, No Idea @ Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green
62. History of Golden Square @ Golden Square, London
63. Grub Street @ Milton Street, London
64. Devils Tavern and Apollo Club @ 2 Fleet Street, London
65. Princess Diana's Playground @ Near Black Line Gate, Serpentine, Kensington, Lo
66. 84 Charing Cross Road @ 84 Charing Cross Road, London
67. Senate House @ Senate House, Malet Street, London
68. PG Wodehouse lived here @ 17 Dunraven Street, Mayfair, London
69. Where Was Wych Street? @ Aldwych
70. The Dog and Duck @ Frith Street, Soho, London
71. The Diary of a Drug Fiend @ 31 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London
72. Chaucers Canterbury Tales Origin @ Talbot Yard, Southwark, London
73. Exciting Books in Soho @ 11 Brewer Street
74. Home of Sherlock Holmes @ 221b Baker Street, London
75. JM Barrie and Peter Pan @ 100 Bayswater Road, London
76. Verde & Company @ 40 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields
77. Poet's Corner @ Westminster Abbey
78. Samuel Coleridge Died Here @ 3 The Grove, Highgate, London
79. Rights of Man written here @ The Old Red Lion, Islington, London
80. TS Eliot lived here @ 33 Courtfield Road, Kensington, London
81. Rupert Bear was created Here @ 58 Cranes Park
82. Chopin's Last Performance @ 4 St James' Place, Piccadilly, London
83. The Greene Man @ 383 Euston Road, Marylebone
84. Goddess Mrs Beeton lived here @ 2 Chandos Villas, Harrow, Middlesex
85. James Bond's House @ Royal Avenue, Chelsea
86. Will's Coffee House @ 39 Bow Street, Covent Garden
87. Heath Robinson lived here @ Moy Lodge, 75 Moss Lane, Pinner, Harrow
88. Enid Blyton was born here @ 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London
89. JB Priestley lived here @ 27 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
90. Jane Austen lived here @ 10 Henrietta Street, Westminster, London
91. The Horn and Centre Page @ 29-33 Knightrider Street, St Pauls
92. Anthony Trollope was born here @ 16 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London
93. The Soho Mural @ Noel Street, London
94. 101 Dalmations author lived here @ 19 Dorset Square, Marylebone
95. Sherlock Holmes was Written Here @ 10-11 Northumberland Street
96. Illustrator Charles Keeping @ 16 Church Road, Shortlands, Bromley
97. The Old Nicholl @ Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets, London
98. Author Wilkie Collins lived here @ 90 Gloucester Place (now 65)
99. Regan once lived Here @ 9 Highbury Crescent
100. Edgar Allen Poe lived here @ 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, Hackney
101. William S Burroughs lived here @ 8 Duke Street, London
102. Simpsons: Home of Chess @ 100 Strand, London
103. Author DH Lawrence lived here @ 32 Well Walk, Hampstead, London
104. William Blake was born here. @ 28 Broad Street, Golden Square
105. The New Clapham Library @ 91 Clapham High Street, Clapham
106. Mount Pleasant - or is it? @ Coldbath Square, Islington, London
107. Brixton Tate Library @ Brixton Oval, Brixton, London
108. Where Boswell met Johnson @ 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden
109. Eccentric George Cecil Ives @ 196 Adelaide Road, Lewisham, London
110. Birthplace of the Pre-Raphaelite @ Cavendish College