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Literary places

Where 1,590 English writers were born. Click a place on the map, or pick one of the 79 towns and cities below that each produced at least three of them.

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Places are the birthplace recorded in Wikidata. Quarters of London (Kensington, Hampstead, Bloomsbury and so on) are counted as London, taken as anywhere within about 22 km of Charing Cross; writers with only "England" given as a birthplace are left out.

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