Bookshops in London, UK: list of 324 free CSV

How many bookshops are in London, UK?

OpenStreetMap lists 324 named bookshops inside the Greater London boundary (1,589 km²), extract of 7 Nov 2026. 58% of the records list a website and 28% a phone number; 132 named bookshops have no website on the public record. The biggest clusters are around Covent Garden (19).

Examples on the list: 56a Infoshop, All Good Bookshop, Amana Trust Bookshop.

Edited on the map in the 90 days before the extract: 84 records, including Books Islamia, Donlon Books, Stanfords, TGJones.

324named bookshops

58%list a website

132no website listed

153neighbourhoods

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Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, extract of 7 Nov 2026. The CSV is under the same licence.

132 with no website67 non-chain, edited since 2022.Filter to them
218 non-chain106 chain branches set aside; the biggest brand is Waterstones (36).Non-chain only
19 in Covent GardenBusiest street: Cecil Court, Covent Garden (9). Plan a territory by neighbourhood or postcode.Only Covent Garden

50 of the 324 bookshops, A to Z

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Bookshops in London, OpenStreetMap extract of 7 Nov 2026.
Business	Street and area	Website	Phone
#
56a Infoshop	56a Crampton Street, Elephant and Castle	56a.org.uk
A
All Good Bookshop	35 Turnpike Lane, Wood Green	allgoodbookshop.co.uk
Amana Trust Bookshop	110 Pentonville Road, Angel
Any Amount of Books	56 Charing Cross Road, Covent Garden	anyamountofbooks.com	+44 20 7836 3697
Art Books	43 Holland Street, Bankside	marcuscampbell.co.uk	+44 20 7261 0111
Artwords	20-22 Broadway Market, Bethnal Green	artwords.co.uk	+44 20 7923 7507
B
Backstory	71 Balham High Road, Balham	backstory.london	+44 20 3302 0460
Barnard's Bookshopnot edited since 2021	Uxbridge, no street on record
Black Gull Booksnot edited since 2017	70 Camden Lock Place, Camden Town
Blackheath Bookshop	34 Tranquil Vale, Blackheath	waterstones.com	+44 20 3409 1463
Blackwell's Bookshopnot edited since 2019	New Cross, no street on record	blackwells.co.uk
Book Shop	226 High Street, Walthamstow
Bookmarks	1 Bloomsbury Street, Bloomsbury		+442076371848
Bookmongers	439 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton	bookmongers.com	+44 20 7738 4225
BOOKS	20 Maxted Road, East Dulwich	books-peckham.com
Books for Cooks	4 Blenheim Crescent, Notting Hill	booksforcooks.com	+44 20 7221 1992
C
Catholic Truth Societynot edited since 2018	25 Ashley Place, Victoria		+44 20 7834 1363
Children's Bookshop	29 Fortis Green Road, Muswell Hill	childrensbookshoplondon.com	+44 20 8444 5500
Christian Book Shopnot edited since 2016	93 Wood Street, Upper Walthamstow
Clapham Booksnot edited since 2021	26 The Pavement, Clapham
Collinge & Clark	13 Leigh Street, St Pancras	collingeandclark.co.uk	+44 20 7387 7105
Crofton Books	Brockley, no street on record
D
Darussalam Publishers & Distributors	11 Victoria Road, Romford	darussalam.uk	+44 7349 129505
Daunt Books	83-84 Marylebone High Street, Marylebone	dauntbooks.co.uk	+44 20 7224 2295
F
Faizan e Islam Book Centre	357 Lea Bridge Road, Leyton	faizaneislam.org	+44 20 8518 7167
Foster Books	183 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick	fosterbooks.co.uk	+44 20 8995 2768
Foyles	Montfichet Road, Stratford	foyles.co.uk	+44 20 3206 2671
G
Gosh!	1 Berwick Street, Soho	goshlondon.com	+44 20 7636 1011
H
Hatchard's	Euston Road, King's Cross	hatchards.co.uk	+44 20 7278 1238
Hellenic Bookservice	89 Fortess Road, Kentish Town	hellenicbookservice.com	+44 20 7267 9499
Herne Hill Books	289 Railton Road, Herne Hill
Highgate Bookshop	9 Highgate High Street, Highgate
Hurlingham books	91 Fulham High Street, Putney	hurlinghambooks.com	+44 20 7736 4363
I
Ink @ 84	84 Highbury Park, Stoke Newington
J
John Sandoe Ltd	10-12 Blacklands Terrace, Chelsea	johnsandoe.com	+44 20 7589 9473
L
Librairie La Pagenot edited since 2020	7 Harrington Road, Brompton	librairielapage.com	+44 20 7589 5991
Librería	65 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields	libreria.io
M
Maggs Bros Ltdnot edited since 2022	46 Curzon Street, Mayfair	maggs.com	+44 20 7495 8580
Morocco Bound	1a Morocco Street, Bermondsey Village	moroccobound.co.uk
N
Noor Ul Islam Bookshop	82 High Road Leyton, Maryland		+44 20 8519 1300
O
Oxfam Bookshop	2 College Approach, Greenwich Town Centre	oxfam.org.uk	+44 20 8305 1656
P
Protestant Truth Society	184 Fleet Street, Temple	protestanttruth.com	+44 2074054960
S
Stoke Newington Bookshop	159 Stoke Newington High Street, West Hackney	stokenewingtonbookshop.co.uk
T
TG Jones	172 High Street, Beckenham	tgjonesonline.co.uk	+44 208 650 0538
The Common Press	118 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch	commonpress.co.uk
The Literacy Pirates	138 Kingsland High Street, Shacklewell	literacypirates.org
The Open Book	King Street, Richmond	theopenbook0.wixsite.com	+44 20 8940 1802
The Works	8 Harben Parade, South Hampstead	theworks.co.uk
W
Waterstones	60;62 Saint Ann's Road, Harrow	waterstones.com
Word on the Water	Somers Town, no street on record	wordonthewater.co.uk	+44 7976 886982

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8 more records have no name on the map and are left out of the list.

Bookshops in London with no website listed

67 of 218 named non-chain bookshops; 12 below, the rest in the filter or the CSV.

Agape Arabic Christian Centre11 Porchester Road, Bayswater
Al Barakat Islamic Bookshop126 High Road Leyton, Maryland
Al Jannah Books153 The Broadway, Southall
Amana Trust Bookshop110 Pentonville Road, Angel
Beautiful Books24 Brixton Station Road, Brixton
Beckenham Bookshop42 High Street, Beckenham
Book Shop226 High Street, Walthamstow
Bookcase London268 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, phone listed
Goldsboro Books25 Cecil Court, Covent Garden, phone listed
Noor Ul Islam Bookshop82 High Road Leyton, Maryland, phone listed
South Kensington Books22 Thurloe Street, Brompton, phone listed
The Book Warehouse38 Golders Green Road, Golders Green, phone listed

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Where they are

Map of the 324 bookshops inside the London boundary; most sit around Covent Garden, Bloomsbury, Soho. — website listedno website, or social page only

Busiest streets

Cecil Court, Covent Garden9
Broadway Market, Bethnal Green3
Charing Cross Road, Covent Garden3
Chiswick High Road, Chiswick3
High Road Leyton, Maryland3
Kentish Town Road, Kentish Town3

By neighbourhood

Black: website listed.

141 more neighbourhoods in the filter above.

By postcode district

NW16
WC2N6
E85
SE15
TW95
W115
NW34
NW54
WC2H4
E13

Chains and non-chain businesses

32% of the records are branches of a chain or brand; 226 are not.

Waterstones36
The Works24
WHSmith15
Oxfam Bookshop14
TGJones6
Daunt Books5
Foyles4

What the records hold

332 map records.
Field	Records	Share
Street address	238	72%
Website (own site)	192	58%
Phone on file	92	28%
Email on file (not shown)	36	11%
Opening hours	127	38%
Chain or brand branch	106	32%
Edited since January 2024	258	78%

Half the records were last edited in Jan 2026 or later.

Why other sites show a different number

Coverage. 332 mapped; Google Maps holds more.
Boundary. 1,589 km² (map); metro searches count more.
Names. 106 branches each count once; 8 unnamed left out.

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3. bookshops in Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom
4. bookshops in Soho, London, United Kingdom
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Compared	The free CSV here	Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder
Rows	324 named bookshops	what Google Maps returns, up to your limit
Phones	92 on file	yes
Emails	36 on the record, not shown	from each website (192)
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Bookstores in other cities

City	Named	Website listed
Bookshops in Edinburgh	57	72%
Bookshops in Bristol	29	41%
Bookshops in Glasgow	27	63%
Bookshops in Manchester	24	42%
Bookshops in Birmingham	24	44%
Bookshops in Sheffield	22	45%
Bookshops in Leeds	18	60%
Bookshops in Cardiff	15	80%
Bookshops in Belfast	14	21%
Bookshops in Liverpool	12	46%

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Questions

How many bookshops are there in London?

At least 332: that is how many OpenStreetMap has inside the Greater London boundary, 324 with a name (extract of 7 Nov 2026). 106 are chain branches. Google Maps usually lists more, because more owners add themselves there.

Which part of London has the most bookshops?

Covent Garden (19), then Bloomsbury (12) and Soho (9); the busiest street is Cecil Court, Covent Garden (9). 153 neighbourhoods have at least one.

How many bookshops in London have no website?

132 of the 324 named bookshops have no website on their map record; 67 of them are not chain branches.

How do I get phone numbers and emails for bookshops in London?

Run Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder with the search "bookshops in London, United Kingdom" plus 3 neighbourhood searches such as "bookshops in Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom". One run costs about $0.72 to $0.88 ($0.40 start fee (4 GB run) included), plus platform usage, for 324 to 480 rows.

Sources

OpenStreetMap extract for London, checked 2026-11-07
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Google Maps Business Lead & Email Finder on the Apify Store, checked 2026-11-13

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