Charles Dickens stayed here

The Sun Hotel (originally called the Little Inn) is a Tudor building on the Burgate, just outside the entrance to Canterbury Cathedral. When was it built? The website says it is "a 15th century Tudor building" ,the plaque says it was built in 1503, and the Kent Messenger dates it to 1480.

Charles Dickens stayed at the Sun and wrote about it in David Copperfield; Mr Micawber stays at the Little Inn. David Copperfield goes to school in Canterbury and Micawber turns up as one of the teachers.

Local legend has it that the House of Agnes on St Dunstan's street just outside the Westgate (now offering bed and breakfast accommodation) is where Agnes, the woman who was to become David Copperfield's second wife, was imagined to have lived.