Record stores in London

Vinyl hunting in London, ON? There are 7 record shops mapped here. That's 7 record shops mapped around London. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around London (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Speed City Record and Sunrise Records, plus Dundas Discs. If a record shop's missing from London's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The London record lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in London

1 of the 7 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

3 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

Most of the record stores in London list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The London record crawl

Making a day of it in London? Work this order: Speed City Record on 294 Springbank Drive, Sunrise Records, Dundas Discs, The Beat Goes On, Grooves Records on 135 Wortley Road, Odyssey Records on 1025 Elias Street, and Sunrise Records. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking.

Record digging tips for London

How the regulars work London's bins:

• Inspect the seams at Speed City Record. Split seams and ring wear tell you how a record lived. Light wear is fine; trashed sleeves drag the value.
• Learn your labels at Sunrise Records. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Bring cash for the small shops. Some independents prefer it, and a cash offer on a stack can occasionally move the price.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around London — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in London can take a while to appear. The 7 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 7 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.