Higham, Gad's Hill Place, Former Residence Of Charles Dickens 1894
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This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long walks with his father. He eventually purchased it in 1856 and lived here until his death in 1870, while working on his uncompleted novel 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'. It is now a girls' school. Almost opposite is the Sir John Falstaff inn, named after the events in Shakespeare's 'Henry IV', when the corpulent knight and his companions were set upon by 'men in buckram'. Daniel Defoe reported that the vicinity was noted 'for robbers of seamen after they had received their pay at Chatham'.
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