Gad's Hill Place helyszín

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Charles Dickens vidéki otthona. A ház 1780-ban épült, Dickens 1856-ban vásárolta meg, és itt élt 1870-ig, haláláig. Az épületet 1924-ben iskolává alakították, és a mai napig iskola működik benne.


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Gad's Hill Place was where Chalres Dickens lived at the end of his life, but not where he wrote Chuzzlewit. That was at Devonshire Terrace, when he still lived with his first wife, in 1843. Gad's Hill is a large Victorian building near Rochester which had fine views of the Medway when Dickens bought it.

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