Sam Anderson, the magazine’s critic at large, visits Dickens World for this week’s Voyages issue.
Built to recreate the London of Charles Dickens’s novels, the theme park in Kent county was intended to create jobs and attract visitors to help reginite the region’s economy.
Many of the landmarks from Dickens’s life and work (like the leaning houses with crooked chimneys, Warren’s Blacking factory and the Marshalsea prison, seen here) were scaled down and crowded together in the warehouse housing the park.
