Cliffe Pools Nature ReserveDickens Glads Hill Place Eastgate House - Dickens CentreGuildhall MuseumRestoration HouseRochester CastleRochester CathedralSix Poor Travellers House
On 14 March 1856 Charles Dickens wrote a cheque for £1,790 to buy Gads Hill Place from Mrs Lynn Linton. The house itself cost £1,700 and the extra £90 was for the shrubbery across the road. It is often said that Dickens wanted the house since he w...
The Rochester Guildhall was built in 1687 and is one of the finest 17th-century civic buildings in Kent. Its staircase and main hall have magnificent plaster ceilings, given in 1695 by Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovell, who was the Member of Parliament f...
Six Poor Travellers House is a Tudor charity house founded by the Elizabethan MP Richard Watts to provide board and lodgings for six poor travellers and continued to do so right up to the Second World War. The house and charity are immortalised i...
