Thinking about it, when I was doing my high school programme, I had the choice between English Lit and English Lang & Lit (latter including stuff like bias, news, etc, not just literature), and I chose the second. My train of thought was basically Lit = More books, Lang Lit = less books, less books = less reading, less reading = less work. Man what a shitty idea. The lit part was the only one I liked. For reading, we had the book 1984 (one of the few books that school made me read that I actually LOVED, it was such a good read, if you haven't I HIGHLY recommend it!!), we had a couple of poems by a famous british writer (don't remember her name, you may know her though), and 2 plays being A Doll's House (was meh) and A Streetcar named Desire (actually really good). If I had to go back, I would have definitely chosen Lit. I liked 1984 so much that for one my assignments, we had to do a 'written task' based on 1984 (it was called written task). Basically you can do any written work as long as it's teacher approved, but we got a list with like 20 ideas (it would range from like writing a dictionary with some of the language used in 1984, but where you extensively add to it, etc) and I decided to write an extra chapter for 1984 x) It was one of the few times where I loved writing an assignment haha
Many unis offer mixes of courses, maybe you can find a course where it has both to some extent? Could also do a minor in one of them, although I'm not sure how it works in the UK, since I study in Holland.