Kent
Borough of Gravesham
Higham

Gads Hill Place

Gad's Hill Place in , , sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gads Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens. Today the building is the independent .
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Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
  • Type: Manor estate
  • Description: house in Higham, Kent, England, UK; country home of Charles Dickens
  • Also known as: “Gad’s Hill Place” and “Gadshill Place”
  • Address: Higham

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gad’s Hill School and Higham Library.

School
Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
Gad's Hill School in , , , is an independent school for day pupils, founded in 1924. It is set in the former Gads Hill Place, the country home of Charles Dickens. is situated 330 feet south of Gads Hill Place.

Library
Photo: JuliaC2006, CC BY 2.0.
is situated 1,600 feet north of Gads Hill Place.

Railway station
Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is in the hamlet of Lower Higham in north . The village of is about 1 mile to the south. It is 28 miles 42 chains down the line from London Charing Cross. is situated 1¼ miles north of Gads Hill Place.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Strood and Wainscott.

Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town on the River Medway in the north of the county of . Together with its neighbouring towns of and it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.

Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in Rochester, in , England. It is in the civil parish of , in the Unitary Authority, that is Medway Council. is situated 2½ miles east of Gads Hill Place.

Hamlet
is a hamlet southeast of Gravesend in , England. The population of the hamlet is included in the civil parish of . It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names and appeared as a question answer for Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4. is situated 2½ miles west of Gads Hill Place.

Gads Hill Place

Latitude
51.41107° or 51° 24′ 40″ north
Longitude
0.45781° or 0° 27′ 28″ east
Inception
1780
Open location code
9F32CF65+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1235236020
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­manor
Wiki­data ID
Q5516441
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Tahitian—“Gads Hill Place” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Գեդս Հիլ Պլեյս”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qedshil”
  • Belarusian: “Гэдсхіл”
  • Breton: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Bulgarian: “Гадс Хил Плейс”
  • Catalan: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Corsican: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Czech: “Gadshill”
  • Danish: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Dutch: “Gads Hill Place”
  • French: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Georgian: “გედს-ჰილი”
  • German: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Hebrew: “גאדס היל פלייס”
  • Indonesian: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Italian: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Low German: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Polish: “Gadshill”
  • Portuguese: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Romanian: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Russian: “Гэдсхилл”
  • Spanish: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Spanish: “Gads Hill”
  • Swedish: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Tagalog: “Gads Hill Place”
  • Tahitian: “Gads Hill Place”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sir John Falstaff Public House and Mid Higham Post Office.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gads Hill Place”. Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.