Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Gad's Hill

Gad's Hill, eminence, mid. Kent, 3 miles SE. of Gravesend; immortalised by Shakespeare as the scene of the robbery of Falstaff; and contains the residence of Charles Dickens (1812-1870).


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "eminence"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: Kent AncC
Place: Gads Hill

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