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Sir John Falstaff Pub

April 2011

Sir John Falstaff is a pub across the road from Dickens' home at Gads Hill. In Shakepeare's Henry IV Falstaff conspires with Prince Hal, the future Henry V, to commit a robbery on the Dover Road at Gads Hill. Dickens wrote that "The robbery was committed before the door, on the ground now covered by the room in which I write. A little rustic alehouse, called the Sir John Falstaff, is over the way, has been over the way ever since, in honour of the event."

Sir John Falstaff Pub