Gads Hill Place
Higham, GB
Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gads Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School. The house was built in 1780 for a former mayor of Rochester, Thomas Stephens, opposite the present Sir John Falstaff
Public House. Gad's Hill is where Falstaff commits the robbery that begins William Shakespeare's Henriad trilogy (Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V).
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- Temple Manor musei · 3 km away
- St Mary's Church, Higham chiese · 3 km away
- All Saints Church, Frindsbury chiese · 4 km away
- U-475 Black Widow museum_ship · 4 km away
- Rochester Bridge monumenti · 4 km away
- Guildhall Museum, Rochester musei · 4 km away
- Rochester Castle castelli · 4 km away