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.

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.

45 Upper Albany St. (now 166 Albany St.) was the home of the Rossetti family; the family moved there in December 1850. It is here that Christina Rossetti wrote "Goblin Market."

16 Cheyne Walk was the home of Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 24 October 1862 until his death in 1882.  Image of 16 Cheyne Walk from Wikipedia Commons is licensed under the