Dover
Lock and Key of the Kingdom

Crabble Corn Mill

Lower Road
River
Dover

Tel: 01304 823292

A beautiful early 19th century watermill, regularly shown working. A café serves meals produced with home baked mill flour. There are also guided tours, an art gallery and a changing programme of exhibitions.

Dover Castle

Dover
Kent

Tel 01304 201628
or
Tel 01304 211067

One of English Heritage’s premier sites, strategically placed on the famous White Cliffs of Dover. Within its walls are contained 2000 years of history, for example the Roman Lighthouse, Saxon Church and the Norman Keep. The Secret Wartime Tunnels provided a World War 2 hospital and operation centre buried deep in the cliffs.

Dover Transport Museum

Willingdon Road
Port Zone
White Cliffs Business Park
Whitfield
Dover

Tel: 01304 822409

A museum of local transport history with road vehicles of all types from bicycles to buses, model railway and tramway, bygone shops and a 1930s garage. There are also items relating to the Kent Coalfield and a Maritime Room.

Gateway to the White Cliffs

Langdon Cliffs
Nr Dover

Tel: 01304 202756

Five miles of coast and countryside owned by the National Trust. The gateway to the White Cliffs overlooks the Straits of Dover and is an excellent place to watch world’s busiest shipping lanes. There is a visitor centre with coffee shop and displays about the cliffs. You can walk along the clifftop to visit South Foreland Lighthouse, which is also owned by the National Trust.

Grand Shaft and Western Heights

South Military Road
Dover

Tel: 01304 201200

Extensive coastal fortifications from the late 18th to mid 19th centuries with fine views across the Channel and Dover. A network of restored footpaths allows you to explore the walls, trenches and ramparts. In the summer the Grand Shaft is open, allowing you to use this spiral staircase connecting the fortifications with the town.

Roman Painted House

New Street
Dover

Tel: 01304 203279

An extraordinarily well preserved Roman Official Hotel (mansio) with extensive, intact, wall paintings and elaborate under-floor heating system. Substantial remains of a Roman fort wall and bastion. All within a purpose built modern building with major displays on Roman Dover.

Samphire Hoe

Off the A20 between
Dover and Folkestone.

Tel: 01304 225649

Samphire Hoe is an area of land created by the material dug out to build the Channel Tunnel. A stunning location at the base of the White Cliffs, wild flowers, birds, sea angling, peace and quiet and walking, are among its attractions.