Discover Charles Dickens Rochester

Discover Charles Dickens Rochester

This is our most popular walking tour because, if there is one literary name associated with Rochester, it is unquestionably.... CHARLES DICKENS.

The town is littered with locations and names which Dickens drew on for inspiration throughout his career, featuring many of them in his fifteen novels, five novellas and hundreds of short stories, most notably ‘The Pickwick Papers’, ‘Great Expectations’, ‘The Seven Poor Travellers’ and his last – and unfinished – work, ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’.

Join us for an entertaining tour around all the key sites, and learn more about the man himself and how he became the highest earning author in the WORLD at the time of his death in 1870.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Guildhall Museum, 17 High Street, Rochester ME1 1PY England

This is the start of the locations Charles Dickens used in his novels, novellas and over 300 short stories.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Six Poor Travellers House, 97 High Street, Rochester ME1 1LX England

If the Poor Travellers House is open, you will have the opportunity to almost go through a time warp to a different era, when travel around the country was only possible with the consent of the landowner for whom you worked.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Eastgate House, High Street, Rochester ME1 1ER England

This house is a lesson in architectural history! In addition to the Dickens connections, we'll show you how to 'read' a building and find out what's REALLY going on - not what is repeated in many history books!

Duration: 15 minutes