Ralph Arnold had strong Kentish connections: he was born in Meopham, members of his family lived in the Medway towns and he moved to the village of Cobham in 1937 where he lived in the eighteenth century Meadow House for most of the rest of his life...
Dickens had known this location since his childhood, when as young boy he had accompanied his father on walks from their Chatham home, over Rochester bridge and through Cobham Woods...
