Dickens' World
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Dickens' World is a theme park-style attraction currently under construction at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. It is due for completion in April 2007, and is based on the life and times of author Charles Dickens, briefly a resident of Medway as a child and who, as an adult, lived at Gads Hill Place in nearby Higham. Many of the locations and characters in his novels are based on buildings, places and people of the Medway Towns: for example Holcombe Manor was the inspiration for Dingley Dell, the house in Pickwick Papers.
The building will incorporate a Dickensian village street, with sundry costumed characters, themed restaurants and bars and a multiplex cinema.
