Sherlock Holmes - the most popular literary hero of the 20th century, also associated steadily with good old England like oatmeal or London fog, densely enveloped in the past city streets . Sherlock Holmes was born in 1887, and on 1950-60 th years of the heyday sherlokomanii - in the troubled years of the collapse of the British Empire ordinary Englishmen remembered a private detective, always coming out victorious, and his faithful friend . Now there are no queues for the ale, as they were then in the pub "Sherlock Holmes", but it would be a mistake to believe that the glory of ma tera deduction nowadays extinguished . Rather, sherlokomaniya reborn .To a large extent, the modern adaptation of Holmes's and Watson's adventures contributed to a new surge of interest .

Those who today arrives in Albion to personally visit places related to the life and activities of the famous detective and to discover England Sherlock Holmes, waiting for a well-tuned machine for earnings on gullible tourists, a rampage wallowing in Baker Street. Of course, not to go to the London house museum is inexcusable, but to limit this as a tourist attraction is not to be a true Sherlockian.

Sherlock Holmes places in London

Sherlock Holmes House Museum on Baker Street

Westminster Palace in London

Baker Street Home Museum , 221 b

The famous eagle profile with a fixed tube in the teeth meets arriving at the station "Baker Street" in the form of an ornament adorning its walls . And already on the street, in front of the entrance to the station, stands a bronze Holmes dressed in a raincoat - a tent and a checkered cap with two peaks (which, by the way, is not mentioned in the texts of Doyle at all) . In the Victorian epochs Street ended in the number 80, so the local museum - nothing more than a decoration that does not interfere with the big and small visitors gladly take the game conditions and enthusiastically looking at "personal belongings" Holmes photographed with mummers caretaker, try "dierstalker cap 'to sit down in a chair by the fireplace and selectively picking souvenirs in memory in a small shop on the first floor .

Sherlock Holmes Mailing Address: 221b, Baker Street, London, NW1 6XE, museum website: www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk , opening hours: daily from 9:30 to 18:00, admission: adults £ 6, children - 4 (March 2012)

Shop

Opposite the house-museum there is an excellent souvenir shop "Sherlock Holmes Memorabilia Co.", at the exit of which tourists are greeted by a colorful subject with a conspiratorial view offering a tour of the authentic Baker- street . However, that the fans of Sherlock - a tasty morsel for the London travel industry, we already mentioned . At absolutely free you can look at the site of Baker Street from 19 to 35 houses (here now the shopping center), recognized as "this" the habitat of our hero, and standing in front of the shopping center house № 32, from where Colonel Moran was aiming at the window of the living room of Holmes and Watson .

Pub Sherlock Holmes

Pub this building was only in 1957, and before that time here was the hotel "Northumberland Arms" - the one in which Sir Henry Baskerville stayed in his time and where Stapleton stole his shoe so that his terrible dog could sniff it. Today there is another reconstruction of the virtuoso deductive method room in the pub, here you can get soup "from Mrs. Hudson" and take a picture next to the wax Holmes.

Address: 10-11 Northumberland Street, Westminster, Charing Cross metro station.

Westminster Library

Here are the archives and books collected in 1951 for a grandiose exhibition dedicated to Sherlock Holmes. Members of the London Society of Sherlock Holmes, who have something like a staff here, take as their basis for their adventure and intellectual game the idea that Conan Doyle's stories are not fiction, but a statement of events that actually took place. According to the members of the club, there are hundreds of sherlockian places in London - enthusiasts are constantly looking for new ones, checking with Dr. Watson's records.

Several other notable places in London related to the stories about Sherlock Holmes

Devonshire Place, house number 2 (near Baker Street) then there was a reception young Conan Doyle

Harleigh Street intersection with Queen Anne Street, house No. 9 - Dr. Watson's residence after his marriage

The Langham Hilton Hotel, in which Conan Doyle himself stayed, as well as the characters of some his stories.

The New Scotland Yard Building on the quay of Queen Victoria with the well-known "Black Museum" of instruments of crime.

Charing Cross Hotel, in which Holmes exposed Hugo Oberstein - a dangerous spy from the story "Bruce-Partington's Drawings "

In a small alley Craven-passage near the station" Charing Cross ", where bold heroes often went to investigate in other cities, previously there were Turkish baths, in which our inseparable couple loved to be.

On Strand Street, several houses are linked to the events in Conan Doyle's stories: Henry Baskerville bought shoes at the shoe store that was at No. 48, and the Simpson on the Strand at No. 100 was the favorite place for Holmes and Watson.

St. Bartholomew's Hospital in the City is famous for the fact that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first met here. To commemorate this event, a memorial plaque has been installed in the local chemical laboratory.

England Sherlock Holmes

But not only London is in the quality of the scene of the investigations of the talented detective. Therefore, to call himself a devoted admirer of Sherlock, you will have to travel all over England.

Camford

Just like that, putting together Cambridge and Oxford, Watson calls in his notes the famous university city, which he writes . Where exactly Holmes studied himself is unclear, but it is known that many of his rivals have graduated from Oxford . Even the villain Moriarty has no doubt finished one of these two educational institutions . Traces of Holmes and Watson and their investigations are found equally in both friend . Therefore, for completeness the pictures will have to visit both places, however, a walk through the old British towns is a pleasure to yourself .

Cornwall

Here on the peninsula Lizard, on the beach, Holmes and Watson, who came to rest and improve their health, turned out to be They are involved in events called the "Cornish Horror" by the press. The cottage where Holmes and Watson lived in the Poldu Bay has not survived, and in the house of the Trigennis family, whose tragedy is described in the story "The Devil's Foot," today lives a family of ordinary farmers.

South Wales

According to one of the versions, "Baskerville Hall" from the story "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is located near the town of Hay-on-Wye in South Wales. Today it is a hotel, very reliably reminiscent of that patrimonial estate, during a visit to which Doyle and learned the local legend of the terrible dog. The only thing that is lacking here is the gloomy marshes, colorfully described by the author. Therefore, it is not surprising that there is one more candidate for the title of "Baskerville Hall."

Dartmoor

It is known that in Dartmoor town Princetown Doyle wrote his novel "About the dog." In Princetown the theme "Sherlock Holmes" is also elaborated. "Baskerville Hall" is considered to be the estate of Brook Manor, and throughout Dartmoor you can find objects that could well serve as prototypes of the sites and buildings described by the author

Such a tourist-literary adventure will bring a lot of pleasure to even the most devoted fans of stories about Sherlock Holmes. However, even the most zealous Sherlockians admit to fiction in the notes about an astute detective and admit that if you could feel the atmosphere of England during the reign of Queen Victoria on a journey along the trail of Sherlock Holmes, this is the main luck, but the fact that some details are not coincided - it's trivia!