Gadshill

Gadshill, 3 miles NW. of Rochester, commands a splendid prospect, and was the scene of Falstaff's famous encounter with the growing number of 'rogues in buckram suits.' Gadshill Place, an old-fashioned red-brick house here, which Dickens coveted as a boy, was bought by him in 1856, and was his permanent residence from 1860 till his death in 1870.