"Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie; Open unto the fields, and to the sky." - William Wordworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 Read more.
Home to the fabulous Jane Austen Tea Rooms - try the cream scones, they're delicious! You can find many copies of Austen's books at the Waterstones on Milsom St. in a dedicated Jane Austen section. Read more.
Now Europe's largest bookshop with 150,000 titles in stock and over eight and a half miles of shelving, you should be able to locate just what you are looking for - if not, ask a bookseller! Read more.
Senate House was the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, but you won't find "WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" on these walls. Read more.
Installed on 1st May, 1912, this bronze statue was left overnight by the author J.M. Barrie to inspire families to love the stories of the boy who never wanted to grow up. Read more.
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall; That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it..." - Robert Frost, Mending Wall Read more.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach..." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
From the 1920s to the 1950s the Fitzroy Tavern was a meeting place for many London's artists, intellectuals and bohemians such as Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Virgina Woolf and George Bernard Shaw.
Wheatsheaf in Soho where George Orwell frequented before writing one of the most seminal books of the 20th century.Dylan Thomas also met his future wife Catlin in this very same establishment.
Dickens' drinking establishment of choice. The former residence needs nothing more to cement its literary heritage, but was also one of the original meeting places for the Bloomsbury Publishing Group.
Once Guinness world record holder for smallest bar in England, also a favourite of Graham Green and Ernest Hemingway - the latter as famed for his notorious drinking abilities as his literary prowess.
