A place in Purfleet

Carfax

It exists only in the story: this is the spot the story gives it.

The old house behind its high wall: the keep, the straggling wings, the chapel.1890s · Illustration, AI-made for Same Streets

The old house at Purfleet the Count buys first, "no doubt a corruption of the old Quatre Face", next door to Dr Seward's asylum. Invented; pinned at Purfleet, down the Thames.

The estate is called Carfax, no doubt a corruption of the old Quatre Face, as the house is four-sided, agreeing with the cardinal points of the compass.

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Visiting today

Carfax never stood. Purfleet is a small town on the Thames in Essex, about half an hour by train from Fenchurch Street; the riverside is a short walk from Purfleet station.

Where to find it

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Carfax

The stories that come here

Dracula — London