The Classical Music Map of Britain

Musical locations in the UK

• Grimsthorpe Castle and Gardens, Bourne

  It was in the lake here that Thomas Linley Junior, known as the English Mozart, died in a boating accident in 1778.

• Town Hall, Birmingham

  Birmingham Town is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in the world.

• 19 New King Street, Bath

  Now the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, this was once the home of musician and astronomer Sir William Herschel.

• The Red House, Aldeburgh

  The Red House in Aldeburgh is where composer Benjamin Britten lived and composed some of his most famous works.

• Leith Hill Place, Dorking

  This was the house, five miles south of Dorking, in which Ralph Vaughan Williams grew up.

• The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne

  The French composer Claude Debussy stayed here from in 1905 in search of peace and quiet following the break-up of his…

• The Cottage, Eynsford, Kent

  A blue plaque marks the cottage in which Peter Warlock and EJ Moeran lived from 1925 to 1928, surrounded by a large…

• Faringdon House, Oxfordshire

  Faringdon House was the home of Lord Berners from 1931 until his death in 1950.

• Stanton Lodge, Fleet

  Sir Arthur Sullivan rented this house in the summer of 1888 and wrote practically all of The Yeomen of the Guard here.

• Grim's Dyke, Middlesex

  It was here that William Schenk Gilbert wrote the librettos for Utopia Limited and The Grand Duke, his final collaboration…

• Plas Gwyn, Hereford

  Edward Elgar moved to Plas Gwyn in 1904, the year he was knighted.

• Abbey Road, London

  Abbey Road Studios, with the pedestrian crossing outside, are probably the best known music studios in the world thanks to…

• St Thomas's Church, Kendal

  Mary Wakefield, the founder of competitive singing festivals in Britain, is buried here.

• 25 Brook Street, London

  The home for thirty-six years of George Frideric Handel (born Halle, Germany, in 1685) who died here on 14 April 1759.