The Victorian writer - whose fame had reached international proportions by the time he died of a stroke at his home in Higham in 1870 - had requested a simple funeral in the cemetery of the Kent ...

Charles Dickens, far right, in front of his Higham home - today it ... he had wanted to be buried near his Kent home - and not Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey as he feared was a possibility.

“Sometimes I come straight from Abbey Wood ... that customers receive from Southeastern. Higham has the most train cancellations of any other Kent station new data reveals “I would like ...