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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 42 office supply shops
Best office supply shops in London
The 10 most notable office supply shops in London, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
WHSmith Liverpool Street Rail
Liverpool Street Broadgate, Western Concourse, Railway Station
122 m from Liverpool Street tube station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.175, percentile 100 of 42
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2
Newmans Stationery
324 Bethnal Grn Rd
410 m from Bethnal Green railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.153, percentile 97.56 of 42
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3
Shepherds Inc. Fine Papers
30 Gillingham St
177 m from London Victoria station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.151, percentile 95.12 of 42
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4
Progressive Supplies
18 Crawford Pl
243 m from Edgware Road tube station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.140, percentile 92.68 of 42
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5
Colyer.
12 Rosebery Avenue
306 m from Clerkenwell tube station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.113, percentile 90.24 of 42
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6
Centrol
19 St Andrews Way
264 m from Devons Road, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.110, percentile 87.8 of 42
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7
J.G Signs
246 Hither Green Lane
413 m from Hither Green railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.104, percentile 85.37 of 42
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8
Choosing Keeping
21 Tower St
197 m from Leicester Square tube station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.102, percentile 82.93 of 42
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9
Anglo
Units 1-2, 70 Malham Road
598 m from Forest Hill railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.081, percentile 80.49 of 42
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10
Boxes And Bubble
357 Fulham Palace Rd
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.047, percentile 78.05 of 42
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).