Crabble Corn
Mill
Lower Road
River
Dover
Tel: 01304 823292 |
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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.
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Dover Castle
Dover
Kent
Tel 01304 201628
or
Tel 01304 211067 |
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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.
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Dover
Transport Museum
Willingdon Road
Port Zone
White Cliffs Business Park
Whitfield
Dover
Tel: 01304 822409
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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.
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Gateway to
the White Cliffs
Langdon Cliffs
Nr Dover
Tel: 01304 202756 |
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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.
See the section about Langdon
Cliffs on this site.
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Grand Shaft
and Western Heights
South Military Road
Dover
Tel: 01304 201200 |
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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.
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Roman Painted
House
New Street
Dover
Tel: 01304 203279 |
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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.
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Samphire Hoe
Off the A20 between
Dover and Folkestone.
Tel: 01304 225649 |
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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.
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