A Dickensian Patchwork – Gad’s Hill Place (AW30)

Gad’s Hill Place near Rochester was the country home of Charles Dickens who first saw the house as an impoverished 9-year-old walking past with his father and thought it “a wonderful Mansion”. Thirty-five years later he realised his childhood dream and purchased the house.
It was here, in a specially constructed Swiss chalet in the grounds, that Dickens wrote some of his best-loved books: A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, this last remaining unfinished at the time of his death which occurred at Gad’s Hill in 1870.