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Dickens Museum & Scrooges Counting House
📍 YO17 7AW
Photo: Stephen Craven (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
The building was the office of Charles Smithson, the Malton solicitor with whom Dickens formed a close friendship. Dickens frequently visited Smithson in the town, and is said to have modelled Scrooge’s Counting House in A Christmas Carol on the premises.
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