GADSHILL

GADSHILL
   an eminence in Kent, 3 m. NW. of Rochester, associated with the name of Falstaff, also of Dickens, who resided here from 1856 to 1870, and where he died.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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