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Gad's Hill and Swift Nick

Higham, near Rochester, Kent

A robbery at dawn and a ride to York by sunset.

Gad's Hill was notorious for highway robbery. Legend says that in 1676 the highwayman John Nevison robbed a traveller here at dawn, then rode all the way to York in a single day, about 200 miles, so he could claim he had been there all along.

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When
1676
Where
51.4100, 0.4600
Group
Gibbets & executions

Visiting

Gad's Hill Place, Dickens's home, is now a school that opens occasionally.

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