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The Elephant and Castle, a great meeting place of thoroughfares, was termed a 'ganglion of roads' by Dickens in 'Bleak House'.The squat old inn that gave it its name dominates the scene, and is

Jane Austen visited the town and mentioned it in one of her novels, while Charles Dickens chose it as the birthplace of his eponymous hero in 'Nicholas Nickleby'.

Victorian travellers and writers, such as Dickens and Tennyson, all came to England's most westerly point and admired its rugged grandeur.

Charles Dickens was fond of Dawlish, and used it as the birthplace of Nicholas Nickelby, thus developing the town's literary heritage.

Stone from here was used to build Sheffield's Wicker Arches that carried the Manchester railway line from 1848 to 1969.

The typically Kentish peg-tiled roof, with its garnish of houseleek and lichen, would have been known to Charles Dickens, for whom a favourite walk was from his Gad's Hill home near Strood to Shorne

Local businessmen William and Daniel Grant were the basis for the Cheeryble brothers in Charles Dickens' masterpiece 'Nicholas Nickleby'.

It has been claimed, probably erroneously, that it is the original of ‘the Old Curiosity Shop’ made immortal by Dickens as the home of ‘Little Nell’.

looking across Main Bay (now Viking Bay) towards the harbour, the pier and the prominent mansion Fort House (now called Bleak House), prior to its extension and castellation in 1901.This house was Dickens

Charles Dickens had earlier taken similar constitutional walks along this route while writing the opening chapters of 'Little Dorrit' in 1855.

Charles Dickens had earlier taken similar constitutional walks along this route while writing the opening chapters of 'Little Dorrit' in 1855.

Tavern Street is home to the Great White Horse, an inn stayed in by Charles Dickens, and described by him in 'The Pickwick Papers'.

Charles Dickens knew the city well.

Dickens, Carlyle, Gladstone and Florence Nightingale all came to Malvern to 'take the cure'.

The famous Angel Hotel, mentioned in Dickens' 'Pickwick Papers', is to the right. To the left are Abbey House, the Cathedral, the Norman tower and St Mary's.

The 'rare good sands', as Charles Dickens described them, still form the focal point of this 'old-fashioned watering place' where 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'David Copperfield', 'The Old Curiosity Shop', and

Byron, Keats, Shelley and later Dickens all drank here.

The 18th-century Royal Hop Pole Hotel on the right- hand side of the street, with its wrought iron, flower- bedecked canopy and window boxes, is featured in Charles Dickens's 'Pickwick Papers

In fact the interior was used as a set for Ebeneezer Scrooge's office during the recent filming of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'.

Charles Dickens had earlier taken similar constitutional walks along this route while writing the opening chapters of 'Little Dorrit' in 1855.

Charles Dickens stayed at Rockingham Castle, and wrote part of 'Bleak House' here.

Charles Dickens's parents married at the church in 1809.

There is hardly anywhere in England that Charles Dickens did not visit and then use in a story.

Modest little Broadstairs needs no defending, having powerful patrons, the most illustrious of whom was Charles Dickens, whose residence at 'Bleak House' is still pointed out as the chief monument of the