When Charles Dickens died at his home in Kent on 9th June 1870, it was presumed that he would be buried in Rochester Cathedral or in one of the nearby parish churches at Cobham or Shorne. This, after ...

Dickens died at his house, Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester in Kent and it was presumed that he would be buried at Rochester Cathedral although an Order in Council did not permit any interments in the ...

Rudyard Kipling, Geoffrey Chaucer and Charles Dickens are all buried in a section of the Abbey known as Poets’ Corner. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here.

In his will, Dickens asked to be buried in Rochester Cathedral, but was laid to rest in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He also requested that no memorial be made to him, and this has been ...