Birchington-on-Sea, Kent is a village of about 10,000 people in northeast Kent, England, facing the North Sea. It is both a tourist and retirement destination. Its churchyard is the burial place of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Image:  The Kent coast, looking across Westgate Bay towards Epple Bay and Birchington-on-Sea (Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0).

17 Red Lion Square was a significant location for writers and painters associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived there briefly in 1851. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones lived there from 1856-59.  Almost directly opposite was the Working Men's College (now #31 Red Lion Square) where D. G. Rossetti worked at the time.