Little Dorrit's Playground

The site was previously called Falcon Court, "a horrible rookery of tumble-down, dirty hovels.

Charles Dickens himself had lodgings in Lant Street to the south of Marsalsea Road as a child when his father is in the Marshalsea debtors' prison nearby in 1824.

The character Little Dorrit was baptised and married in the local church, St George the Martyr, at the southeast end of Marshalsea Road close to the playground.

In 2001, the playground was improved through the effort of the Little Dorrit Park Group, set up by mothers in the area.

North of Marshalsea Road, Little Dorrit's Court, also named after the Dickens character, can be found as well.