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 ...

He then requested to be buried in a simple grave in the cemetery of Rochester Cathedral in Kent. Dickens collapsed from a stroke while dining with his wife's other sister, Georgina Hogarth ...

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.

After a private ceremony, his grave was left open for two days and thousands came to pay their respects. His gravestone was inscribed with only his name and dates, on Dickens’ own orders.

Roger Smith "All that's left of him is his grave and a Blue Plaque outside McDonalds," said Mr Smith But it may have been Jemmy's spectacular meanness that inspired Dickens to immortalize him as ...