Gad’s Hill School
Gad's Hill School in Higham, Kent, England, 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.Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
- Type: School
- Description: school in Kent, UK
- Address: Gravesend Road, Higham, Gravesend, ME3 7PA
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gads Hill Place and Sir John Falstaff Public House.
Gads Hill Place
Manor estate
Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
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. Gads Hill Place is situated 330 feet north of Gad’s Hill School.
Sir John Falstaff Public House
Pub
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sir John Falstaff Public House is situated 500 feet northeast of Gad’s Hill School.
Higham Library
Library
Photo: JuliaC2006, CC BY 2.0.
Higham Library is situated 1,900 feet north of Gad’s Hill School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strood and Medway Gate.
Strood
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Strood is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Rochester and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.
Medway Gate
Locality
Medway Gate, formerly Cuxton Pit No. 3, is a modern residential neighbourhood, built within a former chalk quarry, in Strood, in the Medway district, in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. Medway Gate is situated 2 miles southeast of Gad’s Hill School.
Thong
Hamlet
Thong is a hamlet southeast of Gravesend in Kent, England. The population of the hamlet is included in the civil parish of Shorne. 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. Thong is situated 2½ miles west of Gad’s Hill School.
Gad’s Hill School
- Categories: independent school and education
- Location: Higham, Borough of Gravesham, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.41023° or 51° 24′ 37″ northLongitude
0.45727° or 0° 27′ 26″ eastOpen location code
9F32CF64+3WOpenStreetMap ID
way 401957775OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolWikidata ID
Q15221244
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