London Uncovered is an interactive map of London's blue plaques and a light exploration game built on top of it. Explore the map, find plaques near you, and collect the discoveries you make. Your progress is saved in this browser — there is no account and nothing to sign up for.
The English Heritage blue plaque scheme has commemorated notable people in London since 1866 and is the oldest scheme of its kind in the world. A plaque marks a building where someone lived or worked. This map covers 1,001 plaques from the English Heritage scheme across London, from Westminster and Chelsea to Hampstead, Brixton and Bow — including the early brown, stone and bronze ones put up before blue became the standard. That is every scheme plaque in the OpenPlaques London dataset of 14 December 2025 (accessed 6 September 2026). Wikipedia’s list of the scheme runs to 1,018, so a few of the most recent plaques are not here yet.
Plaques mark the homes and workplaces of writers, artists, scientists, performers, musicians, architects, campaigners and sportspeople — among them Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Alan Turing, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Ada Lovelace, Mary Seacole and Agatha Christie. Every plaque is sorted into a category — Writers & Literature, Art & Design, Science & Technology, Film & Theatre, Music, Politics & Society, Architecture and Sport — so you can explore London by the kind of story you like.
Four curated routes string together plaques that stand within a few streets of each other, so a visit can be an afternoon out rather than a single pin. Each has its own page with the stops in order, the distance and the walking time.
Or see the full list of London blue plaques, A–Z, with search and a link to every plaque's page.
Location is only requested when you tap a location button, is used solely to show discoveries around you, and never leaves your device. No coordinates are stored or sent anywhere. Your collection lives in this browser's local storage.
Plaque data from OpenPlaques (public domain). Fame tiers are derived from Wikipedia monthly pageview counts. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors and CARTO. London Uncovered is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by English Heritage.
Discover the stories hiding around you.