To fans of the novels and the BBC series, the locations featured in the Sherlock Holmes stories are almost as iconic as the characters themselves.
The most famous of all is 221B Baker Street, the home of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Although London's official Holmes museum now bears that number, the address was completely fictional when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published the first “Sherlock” novel in 1887—building numbers on Baker Street did not yet extend that high. The flat shown on the British television show is actually located on the much-quieter North Gower Street, near Euston station.
Other notable filming locations for the television series include Speedy's Cafe in London, which is a fan-favorite lunch spot, and St. Bart's Hospital in Smithfield, which is the oldest hospital in Europe and the site of Sherlock's final showdown with arch-nemesis Moriarty.
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