This section introduces sixteen sites of Blake-related interest in London, ranging from the house where he was born to the graveyard where his body lies. Click on the map to learn about the sigificance of the different places.

William Blake was a Londoner. Born in Soho in 1757, he died off the Strand nearly seventy years later. Except for three years by the Sussex seaside, Blake spent his entire life in the capital. Though he loathed its misery and darkness, it was only in London, he wrote, that he could 'carry on his visionary studies...see visions, dream dreams'. London famously appears in the Songs of Experience as the scene of exploitation and social injustice. The city, center of government and Britain's war economy, also plays a key part in the Prophetic Books, particularly Jerusalem.