29 Arlington Avenue lies just off Regent’s Canal in Islington, forming part of the cluster of streets where Douglas Adams lived, worked, and socialized during the creation of *The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy*.
SEARCH 51.5358934, -0.0908591 29 Arlington Avenue, Islington, London Borough of Islington, London, Greater London, England, N1 7BE, United Kingdom
The area around Arlington Avenue — including Duncan Terrace, Upper Street, and the Islington Tunnel — was Adams’ creative ecosystem in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Friends, collaborators, and fellow writers all lived nearby, making this corner of North London a hub of eccentric talent and late-night invention. While there’s no evidence Adams lived specifically at number 29, the address appears in fan pilgrimages as one of the points on the “*Hitchhiker’s London Trail*,” tracing the geography of his imagination. The quiet, residential charm of the street — canal-side, leafy, slightly improbable — captures the balance between domestic calm and interstellar absurdity that defines Adams’ work.
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