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, Rochester, 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

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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

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Medway Gate is a locality, which is situated 2 miles southeast of Gad’s Hill School.

Thong

Hamlet

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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

51.41022° or 51° 24′ 37″ north

Longitude

0.45727° or 0° 27′ 26″ east

Open location code

9F32CF64+3W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 401957775

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=school

Wikidata ID

Q15221244

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