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Charles Dickens lived here in a castellated,
clifftop holiday home which he renamed Bleak
House, and it was here that he wrote ‘David
Copperfield’.
While the Anglo Saxons noted that Broadstairs was
a ‘broad place’ the town probably derives its name
from a set of steps cut into the cliffs in the
15th century. These may have inspired John
Buchan’s famous book ‘The Thirty Nine Steps’. |
Broadstairs Beach - Kent
Tourism Alliance |
