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id="toc-Retail-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Shipping" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Shipping"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Shipping</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Shipping-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Main_sights" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Main_sights"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Main sights</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Main_sights-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Transport</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Transport-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cycling" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cycling"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>Cycling</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cycling-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ferry" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ferry"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5</span> <span>Ferry</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ferry-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bus" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bus"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.6</span> <span>Bus</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bus-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-RNLI" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#RNLI"> <div 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href="#Radio"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10.3</span> <span>Radio</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Radio-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Twin_towns" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Twin_towns"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>Twin towns</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Twin_towns-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Sports</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_people" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_people"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>Notable people</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_people-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_literature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_literature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>In literature</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_literature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_song" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_song"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>In song</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_song-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" 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href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dofras" title="Dofras – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Dofras" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1" title="دوفر – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="دوفر" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvr" title="Duvr – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Duvr" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1_(%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3)" title="دوور (اینگیلیس) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="دوور (اینگیلیس)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D1%9E%D1%80" title="Дуўр – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Дуўр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%8A%D1%80" title="Дувър – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Дувър" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Kent)" title="Dover (Kent) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Dover (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Anglaterra)" title="Dover (Anglaterra) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Dover (Anglaterra)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(lungsod_sa_Hiniusang_Gingharian,_Inglatera,_Kent,_lat_51,13,_long_1,30)" title="Dover (lungsod sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Kent, lat 51,13, long 1,30) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Dover (lungsod sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Kent, lat 51,13, long 1,30)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Anglie)" title="Dover (Anglie) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Dover (Anglie)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CF%8C%CE%B2%CE%B5%CF%81" title="Ντόβερ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ντόβερ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Kent)" title="Dover (Kent) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Dover (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovro_(Anglio)" title="Dovro (Anglio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Dovro (Anglio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Ingalaterra)" title="Dover (Ingalaterra) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Dover (Ingalaterra)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1_(%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86)" title="دوور (انگلستان) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دوور (انگلستان)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douvres" title="Douvres – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Douvres" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Ingel%C3%A2n)" title="Dover (Ingelân) – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Dover (Ingelân)" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8F%84%EB%B2%84" title="도버 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="도버" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BE%D6%80" title="Դուվր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դուվր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Kent)" title="Dover (Kent) – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Dover (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover,_Kent" title="Dover, Kent – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Dover, Kent" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%80" title="Дувр – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Дувр" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ирон</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubris" title="Dubris – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Dubris" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duvra" title="Duvra – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Duvra" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doveris" title="Doveris – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Doveris" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Anglia)" title="Dover 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Kent)" title="Dover (Kent) – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Dover (Kent)" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li 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href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_(Anglicko)" title="Dover (Anglicko) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Dover (Anglicko)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80" title="Довер – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Довер" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover" title="Dover – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Dover" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi 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class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dover_from_air.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Dover_from_air.jpg/240px-Dover_from_air.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Dover_from_air.jpg/360px-Dover_from_air.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Dover_from_air.jpg/480px-Dover_from_air.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2440" data-file-height="1469" /></a></span><div>Aerial view of Dover Harbour</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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.nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Kent" title="List of places in Kent">Kent</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Dover&params=51.1295_N_1.3089_E_region:GB_type:city(31022)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°07′46″N</span> <span class="longitude">1°18′32″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">51.1295°N 1.3089°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">51.1295; 1.3089</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dover</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ər/: 'er' in 'letter'">ər</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">DOH</span>-vər</i></a>) is a town and major ferry port in <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_East_England" title="South East England">South East England</a>. It faces France across the <a href="/wiki/Strait_of_Dover" title="Strait of Dover">Strait of Dover</a>, the narrowest part of the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a> at 33 kilometres (21 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Cap_Gris_Nez" class="mw-redirect" title="Cap Gris Nez">Cap Gris Nez</a> in France. It lies south-east of <a href="/wiki/Canterbury" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a> and east of <a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a>. The town is the administrative centre of the <a href="/wiki/Dover_District" title="Dover District">Dover District</a> and home of the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Dover" title="Port of Dover">Port of Dover</a>. </p><p>Archaeological finds have revealed that the area has always been a focus for peoples entering and leaving <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Britain</a>. The name derives from the <a href="/wiki/River_Dour" title="River Dour">River Dour</a> that flows through it. </p><p>In recent times the town has undergone transformations with a high-speed rail link to London, new retail in town with St James' area opened in 2018, and a revamped promenade and beachfront. This followed in 2019, with a new 500m Pier to the west of the Harbour, and new Marina unveiled as part of a £330m investment in the area. It has also been a point of destination for many <a href="/wiki/English_Channel_migrant_crossings_(2018-present)" class="mw-redirect" title="English Channel migrant crossings (2018-present)">illegal migrant crossings.</a> </p><p>The Port of Dover provides much of the town's employment, as does <a href="/wiki/Tourism" title="Tourism">tourism</a> including to the landmark <a href="/wiki/White_Cliffs_of_Dover" title="White Cliffs of Dover">White Cliffs of Dover</a>. There were over 368,000 tourists visiting Dover castle in the year of 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dover is classified as a Large-Port Town, due to its large volumes of port traffic and low urban population.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Dover" title="History of Dover">History of Dover</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dover_Castle_(Castle_Street).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Dover_Castle_%28Castle_Street%29.JPG/220px-Dover_Castle_%28Castle_Street%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Dover_Castle_%28Castle_Street%29.JPG/330px-Dover_Castle_%28Castle_Street%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Dover_Castle_%28Castle_Street%29.JPG/440px-Dover_Castle_%28Castle_Street%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dover_Castle" title="Dover Castle">Dover Castle</a> seen from Castle Street.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Street_Scene,_Dover_(4052820752).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Street_Scene%2C_Dover_%284052820752%29.jpg/220px-Street_Scene%2C_Dover_%284052820752%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Street_Scene%2C_Dover_%284052820752%29.jpg/330px-Street_Scene%2C_Dover_%284052820752%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Street_Scene%2C_Dover_%284052820752%29.jpg/440px-Street_Scene%2C_Dover_%284052820752%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="604" data-file-height="440" /></a><figcaption>Photograph showing a Dover street scene, c. 1860</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Archaeology" title="Archaeology">Archaeological</a> finds have shown that there were <a href="/wiki/Stone_Age" title="Stone Age">Stone Age</a> people in the area, and that some <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> finds also exist.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Roman period</a>, the area became part of the Roman communications network. It was connected by road to <a href="/wiki/Canterbury" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Watling_Street" title="Watling Street">Watling Street</a> and it became <i><a href="/wiki/Dubris" title="Dubris">Portus Dubris</a></i>, a fortified port. Dover has a partly preserved Roman lighthouse (the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain) and the remains of a villa with preserved Roman wall paintings.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dover later figured in <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> (1086). </p><p>Forts were built above the port and lighthouses were constructed to guide passing ships. It is one of the <a href="/wiki/Cinque_Ports" title="Cinque Ports">Cinque Ports</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has served as a bastion against various attackers: notably the French during the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> and Germany during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Regional_Seat_of_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional Seat of Government">Regional Seat of Government</a> was located within the White Cliffs beneath Dover Castle. This is omitted from the strategic objects appearing on the Soviet 1:10,000 city plan of Dover that was produced in 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The port would have served as an embarkation point for sending reinforcements to the <a href="/wiki/British_Army_of_the_Rhine" title="British Army of the Rhine">British Army of the Rhine</a> in the event of a Soviet ground invasion of Europe. </p><p>In 1974, a discovery was made at <a href="/wiki/Langdon_Bay_(Kent)" title="Langdon Bay (Kent)">Langdon Bay</a> off the coast near Dover. It contained bronze axes of French design and is probably the remainder of the cargo of a sunken ship. At the same time, this find also shows that trade routes across the Channel between England and France existed already in the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a>, or even earlier. In 1992, the so-called Dover boat from the Bronze Age was discovered in six metres depth underwater. This is one of the oldest finds of a seaworthy boat. Using the <a href="/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating" title="Radiocarbon dating">radiocarbon method</a> of investigation, the boat's construction was dated to approximately <a href="/wiki/1550_BC" class="mw-redirect" title="1550 BC">1550 BC</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>First recorded in its Latinised form of <i><a href="/wiki/Portus_Dubris" class="mw-redirect" title="Portus Dubris">Portus Dubris</a></i>, the name derives from the <a href="/wiki/Common_Brittonic" title="Common Brittonic">Brythonic</a> word for water (<i>dwfr</i> in <a href="/wiki/Middle_Welsh" title="Middle Welsh">Middle Welsh</a>, <i>dŵr</i> in <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh Language">Modern Welsh</a> apart from <i> 'dwfrliw' </i> (Watercolour) which has retained the old Welsh spelling, <i>dour</i> in <a href="/wiki/Breton_language" title="Breton language">Breton</a>). The same element is present in the town's French name <i>Douvres</i> and the name of the river, <a href="/wiki/River_Dour" title="River Dour"><i>Dour</i></a>, which is also evident in other English towns such as <a href="/wiki/Wendover" title="Wendover">Wendover</a>. However, the modern <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh Language">Modern Welsh</a> name <i>Dofr</i> is an adaptation of the English name <i>Dover</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The current name was in use at least by the time of Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> (between 1603 and 1606), in which the town and its cliffs play a prominent role.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Siege_of_Dover_(1216)"><span id="The_Siege_of_Dover_.281216.29"></span>The Siege of Dover (1216)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Siege of Dover (1216)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sandwich_(1217)" title="Battle of Sandwich (1217)">Battle of Sandwich (1217)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Louis_VIII_of_France" title="Louis VIII of France">Louis VIII of France</a> landed his army, seeking to depose <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">King Henry III</a>, on Dover's mainland beach. Henry III ambushed Louis' army with approximately 400 bowmen atop <a href="/wiki/The_White_Cliffs_of_Dover" class="mw-redirect" title="The White Cliffs of Dover">The White Cliffs of Dover</a> and his cavalry attacking the invaders on the beach. However, the French slaughtered the English cavalry and made their way up the cliffs to disperse the bowmen. Louis' army seized Dover village, forcing the English back to Canterbury. French control of Dover lasted for three months after which English troops pushed back, forcing the French to surrender and return home.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography_and_climate">Geography and climate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Geography and climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dovermap1945.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Dovermap1945.jpg/210px-Dovermap1945.jpg" decoding="async" width="210" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Dovermap1945.jpg/315px-Dovermap1945.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Dovermap1945.jpg/420px-Dovermap1945.jpg 2x" data-file-width="879" data-file-height="706" /></a><figcaption>1945 Ordnance Survey map of Dover, showing the harbour</figcaption></figure> <p>Dover is in the south-east corner of Britain. From <a href="/wiki/South_Foreland" title="South Foreland">South Foreland</a>, the nearest point to the European mainland, <a href="/wiki/Cap_Gris_Nez" class="mw-redirect" title="Cap Gris Nez">Cap Gris Nez</a> is 34 kilometres (21 mi) away across the Strait of Dover.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The site of its original settlement lies in the valley of the <a href="/wiki/River_Dour,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="River Dour, Kent">River Dour</a>, sheltering from the prevailing south-westerly winds. This has led to the silting up of the river mouth by the action of <a href="/wiki/Longshore_drift" title="Longshore drift">longshore drift</a>. The town has been forced into making artificial breakwaters to keep the port in being. These breakwaters have been extended and adapted so that the port lies almost entirely on reclaimed land. </p><p>The higher land on either side of the valley – the <a href="/wiki/Dover_Western_Heights" title="Dover Western Heights">Western Heights</a> and the eastern high point on which <a href="/wiki/Dover_Castle" title="Dover Castle">Dover Castle</a> stands – has been adapted to perform the function of protection against invaders. The town has gradually extended up the river valley, encompassing several villages in doing so. Little growth is possible along the coast, since the cliffs are on the sea's edge. The railway, being tunnelled and embanked, skirts the foot of the cliffs. </p><p>Dover has an <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">oceanic climate</a> (Köppen classification <i>Cfb</i>) similar to the rest of the United Kingdom with mild temperatures year-round and a light amount of rainfall each month. The warmest recorded temperature was 37.4 °C (99.3 °F), recorded at <a href="/wiki/Langdon_Bay,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Langdon Bay, Kent">Langdon Bay</a> on 25 July 2019,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the lowest recorded temperature was −9.5 °C (14.9 °F), recorded at <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Royal_Military_School" title="Duke of York's Royal Military School">Dover RMS</a> on 31 January 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The temperature is usually between 3 °C (37 °F) and 21.1 °C (70.0 °F). </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Dover Harbour (Beach), elevation: 0 m (0 ft), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1918–present<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFBA75; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.5<br />(58.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFAB58; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.6<br />(61.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9021; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.6<br />(69.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.0<br />(77.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF6800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.4<br />(79.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF4900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.8<br />(87.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF1C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.4<br />(99.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF3A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.0<br />(91.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">28.0<br />(82.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF7700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.1<br />(75.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFA347; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.8<br />(64.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFB66E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.0<br />(59.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF1C00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">37.4<br />(99.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1<br />(46.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFE4CA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3<br />(46.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFD4AA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.6<br />(51.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFC78F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.6<br />(54.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFAF60; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.0<br />(60.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF9E3E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.5<br />(65.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.9<br />(69.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF8C1A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.1<br />(70.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9B37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.0<br />(66.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFB164; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.7<br />(60.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8<br />(53.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFE0C2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.9<br />(48.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFBB77; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">14.3<br />(57.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFF5EB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.9<br />(42.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.0<br />(42.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7<br />(45.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFDBB7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.7<br />(49.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFC68D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.7<br />(54.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFB368; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.4<br />(59.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFA44A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.6<br />(63.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFA246; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.9<br />(64.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFAF60; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.0<br />(60.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.9<br />(55.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDBC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.3<br />(48.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFF0E2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.6<br />(43.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFCE9E; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">11.5<br />(52.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.6<br />(38.5) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.6<br />(38.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFFDFC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.7<br />(40.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFDF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.8<br />(44.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFDCBA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.5<br />(49.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFC892; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.4<br />(54.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFBA76; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.4<br />(57.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFB871; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.8<br />(58.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.9<br />(55.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.0<br />(50.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFE0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.7<br />(44.1) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.3<br />(39.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFE2C5; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">8.7<br />(47.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #B3B3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−9.5<br />(14.9) </td> <td style="background: #B9B9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−8.4<br />(16.9) </td> <td style="background: #BFBFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−7.2<br />(19.0) </td> <td style="background: #D4D4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3.4<br />(25.9) </td> <td style="background: #E6E6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.1<br />(31.8) </td> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.2<br />(36.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.0<br />(41.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFECD9; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.2<br />(45.0) </td> <td style="background: #EFEFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.7<br />(35.1) </td> <td style="background: #E0E0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−1.1<br />(30.0) </td> <td style="background: #D1D1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3.9<br />(25.0) </td> <td style="background: #C5C5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6.1<br />(21.0) </td> <td style="background: #B3B3FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−9.5<br />(14.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #89FF89; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79.1<br />(3.11) </td> <td style="background: #95FF95; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.7<br />(2.55) </td> <td style="background: #BAFFBA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.9<br />(1.81) </td> <td style="background: #A7FFA7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56.6<br />(2.23) </td> <td style="background: #B5FFB5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49.3<br />(1.94) </td> <td style="background: #AAFFAA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.1<br />(2.17) </td> <td style="background: #B0FFB0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52.5<br />(2.07) </td> <td style="background: #A0FFA0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">63.7<br />(2.51) </td> <td style="background: #9BFF9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.3<br />(2.53) </td> <td style="background: #6BFF6B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">98.7<br />(3.89) </td> <td style="background: #59FF59; color:#000000;" class="notheme">107.6<br />(4.24) </td> <td style="background: #71FF71; color:#000000;" class="notheme">95.0<br />(3.74) </td> <td style="background: #95FF95; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">832.4<br />(32.77) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #767676; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">64.9 </td> <td style="background: #A6A6A6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82.9 </td> <td style="background: #B8B852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">125.0 </td> <td style="background: #D7D700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">192.1 </td> <td style="background: #DBDB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">214.6 </td> <td style="background: #DEDE00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">221.8 </td> <td style="background: #DDDD00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">224.2 </td> <td style="background: #DDDD00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">223.7 </td> <td style="background: #CDCD00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">164.5 </td> <td style="background: #B8B854; color:#000000;" class="notheme">124.2 </td> <td style="background: #888888; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">72.5 </td> <td style="background: #6C6C6C; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">59.2 </td> <td style="background: #C4C40D; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,769.7 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 1: <a href="/wiki/Met_Office" title="Met Office">Met Office</a><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source 2: Starlings Roost Weather<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1800, the year before Britain's first national census, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Hasted" title="Edward Hasted">Edward Hasted</a> (1732–1812) reported that the town had a population of almost 10,000 people.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the 2001 census, the town of Dover had 28,156 inhabitants, while the population of the whole urban area of Dover, as calculated by the <a href="/wiki/Office_for_National_Statistics" title="Office for National Statistics">Office for National Statistics</a>, was 39,078 inhabitants.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the expansion of Dover, many of the outlying ancient villages have been incorporated into the town. Originally the parishes of Dover St. Mary's and Dover St. James, since 1836 Buckland and Charlton have become part Dover, and Maxton (a hamlet to the west), <a href="/wiki/River,_Kent" title="River, Kent">River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kearsney,_Kent" title="Kearsney, Kent">Kearsney</a>, <a href="/wiki/Temple_Ewell" title="Temple Ewell">Temple Ewell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Whitfield,_Kent" title="Whitfield, Kent">Whitfield</a>, all to the north of the town centre, are within its conurbation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retail">Retail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Retail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town's main shopping streets are the High Street, Biggin Street, Market Square, Cannon Street, Pencester Road and Castle Street. The Castleton Retail Park is to the north-west of the town centre. The new St James' Retail and Leisure Park opened in 2018 and is a southern extension of the town centre; it consists of shops, restaurants, a Travelodge Hotel and a Cineworld Cinema.<sup id="cite_ref-stjames-dover.co.uk_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stjames-dover.co.uk-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shipping">Shipping</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Shipping"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Douvres_(5).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Douvres_%285%29.JPG/500px-Douvres_%285%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="500" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Douvres_%285%29.JPG/750px-Douvres_%285%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Douvres_%285%29.JPG/1000px-Douvres_%285%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="824" /></a><figcaption>The Port of Dover and the <a href="/wiki/White_Cliffs_of_Dover" title="White Cliffs of Dover">White Cliffs of Dover</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Dover Harbour Board<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is the responsible authority for the running of the Port of Dover. The <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a>, here at its narrowest point in the Straits of Dover, is the busiest shipping lane in the world. Ferries crossing between here and the Continent have to negotiate their way through the constant stream of shipping crossing their path. The <i>Dover Strait Traffic Separation Scheme</i> allots ships separate lanes when passing through the Strait. The Scheme is controlled by the Channel Navigation Information Service based at Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre Dover. MRCC Dover is also charged with co-ordination of civil maritime search and rescue within these waters.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Dover" title="Port of Dover">Port of Dover</a> is also used by cruise ships. The old <a href="/wiki/Dover_Marine_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Dover Marine railway station">Dover Marine railway station</a> building houses one passenger terminal, together with a car park. A second, purpose-built, terminal is located further out along the pier.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ferry lines using the port are (number of daily sailings in parentheses): </p> <ul><li>to Calais: <a href="/wiki/P%26O_Ferries" title="P&O Ferries">P&O Ferries</a> (13), <a href="/wiki/DFDS_Seaways" title="DFDS Seaways">DFDS Seaways</a> (14), <a href="/wiki/Irish_Ferries" title="Irish Ferries">Irish Ferries</a> (14).</li> <li>to Dunkirk: <a href="/wiki/DFDS_Seaways" title="DFDS Seaways">DFDS Seaways</a> (11).</li></ul> <p>These services have been cut in recent years: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P%26O_Ferries" title="P&O Ferries">P&O Ferries</a> sailings to <a href="/wiki/Boulogne" class="mw-redirect" title="Boulogne">Boulogne</a> (5 daily) were withdrawn in 1993 and <a href="/wiki/Zeebrugge" title="Zeebrugge">Zeebrugge</a> (4 daily) in 2002.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SNCF" title="SNCF">SNCF</a> withdrew their three <a href="/wiki/Train_ferry" title="Train ferry">train ferry</a> sailings on the opening of the <a href="/wiki/Channel_Tunnel" title="Channel Tunnel">Channel Tunnel</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regie_voor_Maritiem_Transport" title="Regie voor Maritiem Transport">Regie voor Maritiem Transport</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> moved their <a href="/wiki/Ostend" title="Ostend">Ostend</a> service of three sailings daily to <a href="/wiki/Ramsgate" title="Ramsgate">Ramsgate</a> in 1994; this route was operated by <a href="/wiki/TransEuropa_Ferries" class="mw-redirect" title="TransEuropa Ferries">TransEuropa Ferries</a> until April 2013.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stena_Line" title="Stena Line">Stena Line</a> merged their 20 Calais sailings into the current P&O operation in 1998.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoverspeed" title="Hoverspeed">Hoverspeed</a> ceased operations in 2005 and withdrew their 8 daily sailings.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SpeedFerries" title="SpeedFerries">SpeedFerries</a> ceased operations in 2008 and withdrew their 5 daily sailings.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/LD_Lines" title="LD Lines">LD Lines</a> ceased the Dover-<a href="/wiki/Dieppe,_Seine-Maritime" class="mw-redirect" title="Dieppe, Seine-Maritime">Dieppe</a> service on 29 June 2009 and Dover-Boulogne 5 September 2010.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SeaFrance" title="SeaFrance">SeaFrance</a> ceased operations in 2012 of their Dover-<a href="/wiki/Calais" title="Calais">Calais</a> service which was their only service.</li></ul> <p><br /> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dover_Harbour_panorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Dover Harbour, from the White Cliffs of Dover"><img alt="Dover Harbour, from the White Cliffs of Dover" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Dover_Harbour_panorama.jpg/1200px-Dover_Harbour_panorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="1200" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Dover_Harbour_panorama.jpg/1800px-Dover_Harbour_panorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Dover_Harbour_panorama.jpg/2400px-Dover_Harbour_panorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3972" data-file-height="1050" /></a><figcaption> Dover Harbour, from the <a href="/wiki/White_Cliffs_of_Dover" title="White Cliffs of Dover">White Cliffs of Dover</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Main_sights">Main sights</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Main sights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DoverRathaus.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/DoverRathaus.JPG/220px-DoverRathaus.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/DoverRathaus.JPG/330px-DoverRathaus.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/DoverRathaus.JPG/440px-DoverRathaus.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Maison_Dieu,_Dover" title="Maison Dieu, Dover">The Town Hall</a>, which dates back to 1203</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Blériot memorial: the outline of <a href="/wiki/Louis_Bl%C3%A9riot" title="Louis Blériot">Louis Blériot</a>'s aircraft, marked with granite setts, at the exact spot where Blériot landed after the first cross-Channel flight, 1909<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Castle" title="Dover Castle">Dover Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Cliffs_of_Dover" title="White Cliffs of Dover">White Cliffs of Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Western_Heights" title="Dover Western Heights">Dover Western Heights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Museum" title="Dover Museum">Dover Museum</a></li> <li>Dover Marina</li> <li>Dover Pier</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Painted_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Painted House">Roman Painted House Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maison_Dieu,_Dover" title="Maison Dieu, Dover">Maison Dieu, Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samphire_Hoe" title="Samphire Hoe">Samphire Hoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Foreland_Lighthouse" class="mw-redirect" title="South Foreland Lighthouse">South Foreland Lighthouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pines_Garden" title="Pines Garden">Pines Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Edmund%27s_Chapel" title="St Edmund's Chapel">St Edmund's Chapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Dover" title="St Mary's Church, Dover">St Mary's Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_James%27_Church,_Dover" title="St James' Church, Dover">St James' Church</a>: preserved as a "tidy ruin"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Dover" title="St Paul's Church, Dover">St Paul's Church</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Dover Castle</th> <th>White Cliffs of Dover</th> <th>Pines Garden</th> <th>Samphire Hoe Country Park </th></tr> <tr> <td><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dover_Castle_from_the_north.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Dover_Castle_from_the_north.jpg/200px-Dover_Castle_from_the_north.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Dover_Castle_from_the_north.jpg/300px-Dover_Castle_from_the_north.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Dover_Castle_from_the_north.jpg/400px-Dover_Castle_from_the_north.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4896" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>The castle from the north</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:White_Cliffs_of_Dover_02.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/White_Cliffs_of_Dover_02.JPG/200px-White_Cliffs_of_Dover_02.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/White_Cliffs_of_Dover_02.JPG/300px-White_Cliffs_of_Dover_02.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/White_Cliffs_of_Dover_02.JPG/400px-White_Cliffs_of_Dover_02.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>White Cliffs seen from the Strait of Dover</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Pines_Garden,_St_Margaret%27s_at_Cliffe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1520841.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/The_Pines_Garden%2C_St_Margaret%27s_at_Cliffe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1520841.jpg/200px-The_Pines_Garden%2C_St_Margaret%27s_at_Cliffe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1520841.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/The_Pines_Garden%2C_St_Margaret%27s_at_Cliffe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1520841.jpg/300px-The_Pines_Garden%2C_St_Margaret%27s_at_Cliffe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1520841.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/The_Pines_Garden%2C_St_Margaret%27s_at_Cliffe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1520841.jpg/400px-The_Pines_Garden%2C_St_Margaret%27s_at_Cliffe_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1520841.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The Pines Garden</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Samphire_Hoe.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Samphire_Hoe.JPG/200px-Samphire_Hoe.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Samphire_Hoe.JPG/300px-Samphire_Hoe.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Samphire_Hoe.JPG/400px-Samphire_Hoe.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Samphire Hoe beneath the White Cliffs of Dover</figcaption></figure> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Road">Road</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Road"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dover's main communications artery, the <a href="/wiki/A2_road_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="A2 road (Great Britain)">A2 road</a> replicates two former routes, connecting the town with Canterbury. The Roman road was followed for centuries until, in the late 18th century, it became a <a href="/wiki/Toll_road" title="Toll road">toll road</a>. <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach" title="Stagecoach">Stagecoaches</a> were operating: one description stated that the journey took all day to reach London, from 4<span class="nowrap"> </span>am to being "in time for supper".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The other main roads, travelling west and east, are the <a href="/wiki/A20_road_(England)" title="A20 road (England)">A20</a> to <a href="/wiki/Folkestone" title="Folkestone">Folkestone</a> and thence the <a href="/wiki/M20_motorway" title="M20 motorway">M20</a> to London, and the <a href="/wiki/A258_road" title="A258 road">A258</a> through Deal to Sandwich. </p><p>In December 2020, a long line of freight trucks formed due to sudden border closures with France, because of new strains of <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> within the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rail">Rail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Rail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The railway reached Dover from two directions: the <a href="/wiki/South_Eastern_Railway_(England)" title="South Eastern Railway (England)">South Eastern Railway's</a> main line connected with Folkestone in 1844, and the <a href="/wiki/London,_Chatham_%26_Dover_Railway" class="mw-redirect" title="London, Chatham & Dover Railway">London, Chatham & Dover Railway</a> opened its line from Canterbury in 1861. <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_(train_operating_company)" title="Southeastern (train operating company)">Southeastern</a> trains run from <a href="/wiki/Dover_Priory_railway_station" title="Dover Priory railway station">Dover Priory</a> to <a href="/wiki/Charing_Cross_railway_station" title="Charing Cross railway station">London Charing Cross</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Victoria_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="London Victoria railway station">London Victoria</a> or <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">London St Pancras International</a> stations in London, and <a href="/wiki/Ramsgate_railway_station" title="Ramsgate railway station">Ramsgate</a> or <a href="/wiki/Sandwich_railway_station" title="Sandwich railway station">Sandwich</a> in Kent. With the introduction of the high-speed service into St Pancras International via <a href="/wiki/High_Speed_1" title="High Speed 1">High Speed 1</a>, rail journey times between London and Dover were reduced to 55 minutes non-stop. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Main_Line" title="Chatham Main Line">Chatham Main Line</a> into Priory was electrified under <a href="/wiki/British_Rail" title="British Rail">British Railways</a> in 1959 as part of Stage 1 of Kent Coast Electrification, under the BR <a href="/wiki/1955_Modernisation_Plan" class="mw-redirect" title="1955 Modernisation Plan">1955 Modernisation Plan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Electric_Railways_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Electric_Railways-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The line up to Ramsgate, via Deal, was subsequently electrified under stage two of Kent Coast electrification in January 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-Electric_Railways_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Electric_Railways-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The line from Folkestone into Priory was electrified in June 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-Electric_Railways_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Electric_Railways-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Dover_Corporation_Tramways" title="Dover Corporation Tramways">tram system</a> operated in the town from 1897 to 1936. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:France_manche_vue_dover.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/France_manche_vue_dover.JPG/300px-France_manche_vue_dover.JPG" decoding="async" width="300" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/France_manche_vue_dover.JPG/450px-France_manche_vue_dover.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/France_manche_vue_dover.JPG 2x" data-file-width="593" data-file-height="258" /></a><figcaption>View of the White Cliffs of Dover from France</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Walking">Walking</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Walking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dover has two <a href="/wiki/Long_distance_footpaths_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Long distance footpaths in the United Kingdom">long distance footpaths</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Saxon_Shore_Way" title="Saxon Shore Way">Saxon Shore Way</a> and the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs_Way" title="North Downs Way">North Downs Way</a>. The <a href="/wiki/National_Trust" title="National Trust">National Trust</a> White Cliffs can be reached by foot from the town centre, with pathways to <a href="/wiki/South_Foreland_Lighthouse" class="mw-redirect" title="South Foreland Lighthouse">South Foreland Lighthouse</a>, and St Margarets Bay along the cliff top . The walking routes from Dover pass the <a href="/wiki/National_Trust" title="National Trust">National Trust</a> visitor centre on the landmark chalk cliffs overlooking the <a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a> with views of France visible on a clear day. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cycling">Cycling</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Cycling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Two <a href="/wiki/National_Cycle_Network" title="National Cycle Network">National Cycle Network</a> routes begin their journey at the town. Route one goes from Dover to Canterbury.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This route links with <a href="/wiki/National_Cycle_Route_2" title="National Cycle Route 2">National Cycle Route 2</a> from Dover to St Austell, Regional route 16, and Regional route 17 in Dover. It passes three castles. Firstly from Dover on the steap incline past Dover Castle. Then<a href="/wiki/South_Foreland_Lighthouse" class="mw-redirect" title="South Foreland Lighthouse">South Foreland Lighthouse</a> is visible from the route. Mostly traffic-free along the east coast from Kingsdown to Deal, passing <a href="/wiki/Walmer_Castle" title="Walmer Castle">Walmer Castle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Deal_Castle" title="Deal Castle">Deal Castle</a>. Follows toll road (free to cyclists) through the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club to the town of Sandwich. In Sandwich the route links with Regional route 15. Dover town centre is cycle friendly: There are dedicated cycle lanes along the seafront and cycle routes through the town's pedestrianised High Street area. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ferry">Ferry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Ferry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Dover" title="Port of Dover">Port of Dover</a> is a 20-minute walk from <a href="/wiki/Dover_Priory_railway_station" title="Dover Priory railway station">Dover Priory railway station</a>. The port offers crossings to both <a href="/wiki/Calais" title="Calais">Calais</a> (DFDS, P&O and Irish Ferries) and <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkerque</a> (DFDS). The Dover to <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a> ferry route was originally operated by ferry operator <a href="/wiki/Norfolkline" title="Norfolkline">Norfolkline</a>. This company was later acquired by the pan European operator <a href="/wiki/DFDS_Seaways" title="DFDS Seaways">DFDS Seaways</a> in July 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crossing time is approximately two hours.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The location of <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a> is also more convenient for those travelling by road transport on to countries in Northern Europe including <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>, Germany and further afield. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bus">Bus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Bus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Stagecoach_in_East_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Stagecoach in East Kent">Stagecoach in East Kent</a> provide local bus services. Dover is on the Stagecoach Diamond network providing links to <a href="/wiki/Canterbury" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Deal,_Kent" title="Deal, Kent">Deal</a>. The Western Docks at the port of Dover are served from the town centre as well as Canterbury and Deal. Dover is the start of <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach_The_Wave_routes" class="mw-redirect" title="Stagecoach The Wave routes">The Wave network</a> to <a href="/wiki/New_Romney" title="New Romney">New Romney</a> via <a href="/wiki/Folkestone" title="Folkestone">Folkestone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hythe,_Kent" title="Hythe, Kent">Hythe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dymchurch" title="Dymchurch">Dymchurch</a>. There are services to <a href="/wiki/Lydd" title="Lydd">Lydd</a> via <a href="/wiki/Lydd_Airport" title="Lydd Airport">Lydd Airport</a>, and links to<a href="/wiki/Sandwich,_Kent" title="Sandwich, Kent">Sandwich</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/National_Express_Coaches" title="National Express Coaches">National Express</a> runs coaches from Dover to other towns in <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a> including Canterbury, Folkestone, <a href="/wiki/Ashford,_Kent" title="Ashford, Kent">Ashford, Kent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gillingham,_Kent" title="Gillingham, Kent">Gillingham</a> at Hempsted Valley shopping centre and <a href="/wiki/Greenhithe,_Kent" title="Greenhithe, Kent">Greenhithe</a> at <a href="/wiki/Bluewater_Shopping_Centre" title="Bluewater Shopping Centre">Bluewater Shopping Centre</a> for <a href="/wiki/Dartford" title="Dartford">Dartford</a> to London including <a href="/wiki/Bexleyheath" title="Bexleyheath">Bexleyheath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eltham" title="Eltham">Eltham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walworth" title="Walworth">Walworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canary_Wharf" title="Canary Wharf">Canary Wharf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elephant_%26_Castle" class="mw-redirect" title="Elephant & Castle">Elephant & Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_City_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="The City of London">the City of London</a> and to <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Coach_Station" title="Victoria Coach Station">Victoria Coach Station</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="RNLI">RNLI</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: RNLI"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Dover lifeboat is a <a href="/wiki/Severn_class_lifeboat" class="mw-redirect" title="Severn class lifeboat">Severn class lifeboat</a> based in the Western Docks.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dover Lifeboat station is based at crosswall quay in Dover Harbour. There is a <a href="/wiki/Severn-class_lifeboat" title="Severn-class lifeboat">Severn-class lifeboat</a>, which is the biggest in the fleet. It belongs to the <a href="/wiki/RNLI" class="mw-redirect" title="RNLI">RNLI</a> which covers all of Great Britain. The lifeboat number is 17–09 and has a lot of emergencies in the Channel. The Severn class is designed to lay afloat. Built from fibre reinforced composite (FRC) the boat is lightweight yet very strong and is designed to right itself in the event of a capsize. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Kent" title="List of schools in Kent">List of schools in Kent</a></div> <p>There are seven secondary level schools serving Dover. </p><p><b>Public schools</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dover_College" title="Dover College">Dover College</a></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Dover_College" title="Dover College">Dover College</a> is a mixed <a href="/wiki/Public_school_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public school (UK)">public school</a> founded in 1871 by a group of local business men.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Selective secondary schools</b> </p><p>There are two single-sex grammar schools and a mixed military school in Dover. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Grammar_School_for_Boys" title="Dover Grammar School for Boys">Dover Grammar School for Boys</a> (DGSB)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Grammar_School_for_Girls" title="Dover Grammar School for Girls">Dover Grammar School for Girls</a> (DGGS)</li></ul> <p>Both grammar schools require the Dover Test or the Kent Test for admission to Year 7. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Royal_Military_School" title="Duke of York's Royal Military School">Duke of York's Royal Military School</a></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Royal_Military_School" title="Duke of York's Royal Military School">Duke of York's Royal Military School</a> is a selective secondary school with <a href="/wiki/Academy_(English_school)" title="Academy (English school)">academy status</a> and England's only military boarding school for children of service personnel (co-education ages 11–18), located next to the former site of <a href="/wiki/Connaught_Barracks,_Dover" title="Connaught Barracks, Dover">Connaught Barracks</a>. </p><p><b>Non-selective secondary schools</b> </p><p>There are fjewwr ex-<a href="/wiki/Secondary_modern_school" title="Secondary modern school">secondary modern</a> mixed schools in Dover, all with <a href="/wiki/Academy_(English_school)" title="Academy (English school)">academy status</a>. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astor_Secondary_School" title="Astor Secondary School">Astor Secondary School</a></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Astor_Secondary_School" title="Astor Secondary School">Astor Secondary School</a> <a href="/wiki/School_federation_(England_and_Wales)" title="School federation (England and Wales)">federated</a> with St Radigunds Primary School (then renamed White Cliffs Primary College for the Arts) to form the Dover Federation for the Arts (DFA). Subsequently, Barton Junior School and Shatterlocks Nursery and Infant School joined the DFA. In 2014, the DFA was warned by the Department for Education about "unacceptably low standards of performance of pupils ".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St_Edmund%27s_Catholic_School,_Dover" title="St Edmund's Catholic School, Dover">St Edmund's Catholic School</a></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/St_Edmund%27s_Catholic_School,_Dover" title="St Edmund's Catholic School, Dover">St Edmund's Catholic School</a> federated with St Richards Catholic Primary School to form the Dover Federation of Catholic Schools. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Christ_Church_Academy" title="Dover Christ Church Academy">Dover Christ Church Academy</a></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Dover_Christ_Church_Academy" title="Dover Christ Church Academy">Dover Christ Church Academy</a> is located in Whitfield, 4 miles north of Dover. </p><p><b>Technical College</b> </p><p>Dover Technical College is part of the <a href="/wiki/East_Kent_College" title="East Kent College">East Kent College</a> (EKC) group. </p><p>In addition, 16 primary schools and two special schools add to the educational offering. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_services">Public services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Public services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dover has one hospital, <a href="/wiki/Buckland_Hospital" title="Buckland Hospital">Buckland Hospital</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Earlier hospitals included the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Victoria_Hospital,_Dover" title="Royal Victoria Hospital, Dover">Royal Victoria Hospital</a>, the Isolation Hospital and the Eye Hospital. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Local_media">Local media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Local media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Local news and television programmes are provided by <a href="/wiki/BBC_South_East" title="BBC South East">BBC South East</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_Meridian" title="ITV Meridian">ITV Meridian</a>. Television signals are received from the nearby <a href="/wiki/Dover_transmitting_station" title="Dover transmitting station">Dover</a> TV transmitter situated south of the town<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a local relay transmitter in the centre of Dover.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dover was the home to television studios and production offices of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Television" title="Southern Television">Southern Television</a> Ltd, the company which operated the ITV franchise for South and South East England from 1958 to 1981. The studios were located on Russell Street and were home to programmes like 'Scene South East', 'Scene Midweek', 'Southern News', 'Farm Progress' and the nightly epilogue, 'Guideline'. The studios were operated by TVS in 1982 and home to 'Coast to Coast', however they closed a year later when the company moved their operations to the newly complete Television Centre in <a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Newspapers">Newspapers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Newspapers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dover has two paid for newspapers, the <i>Dover Express</i> (published by Kent Regional News and Media) and the <i><a href="/wiki/East_Kent_Mercury_and_Dover_Mercury" title="East Kent Mercury and Dover Mercury">Dover Mercury</a></i> (published by the <a href="/wiki/KM_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="KM Group">KM Group</a>). Free newspapers for the town previously included the <i>Dover and Deal Extra</i>, part of the KM Group; and <i>yourdover</i>, part of <a href="/wiki/KOS_Media" title="KOS Media">KOS Media</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dover has one local commercial radio station, <a href="/wiki/KMFM_Shepway_and_White_Cliffs_Country" title="KMFM Shepway and White Cliffs Country">KMFM Shepway and White Cliffs Country</a>, broadcasting to Dover on 106.8FM. The station was founded in Dover as Neptune Radio in September 1997 but moved to Folkestone in 2003 and was consequently rebranded after a takeover by the KM Group. Dover is also served by the county-wide stations <a href="/wiki/Heart_South" title="Heart South">Heart South</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gold_(British_radio_network)" title="Gold (British radio network)">Gold</a> and <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Kent" title="BBC Radio Kent">BBC Radio Kent</a>. </p><p>The Gateway Hospital Broadcasting Service, in Buckland Hospital radio, closed at the end of 2006. It was the oldest hospital radio station in East Kent being founded in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>DCR 104.9FM (Dover Community Radio) started broadcasting on 104.9FM in May 2022 and is Dover and White Cliffs Country's community radio station. The online station of the same name launched on 30 July 2011 offering local programmes, music and news for Dover and district. Prior to this DCR was an online podcasting service since 2010. .<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dover Community Radio was awarded a community radio licence by OFCOM on 12 May 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of November 2021, BFBS Gurkha Radio has been broadcasting on 90.8FM in Dover and can be picked up within 1 mile of its transmission site at the Dover Community Centre located at Burgoyne Heights. This is part of a trial broadcast of small scale FM services by OFCOM due to end in September 2022 but it maybe extended to serve the Gurkha community living at Burgoyne Heights. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are three museums: the main <a href="/wiki/Dover_Museum" title="Dover Museum">Dover Museum</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Dover Transport Museum<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Painted_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Painted House">Roman Painted House</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town has two cinemas, the Silver Screen Cinema<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> located at the Dover Museum and the Cineworld Cinema opened in 2018 as part of the St James' Retail and Leisure complex.<sup id="cite_ref-stjames-dover.co.uk_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stjames-dover.co.uk-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Discovery Centre located off the Market Square houses Dover's library, Dover Museum, Silver Screen Cinema, the Roundhouse Community Theatre as well as adult education facilities.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Charlton Shopping Centre<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> off the High Street has retail units, the Dover Local community hub, leisure facilities and the studios of Dover Community Radio.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The White Cliffs Theatre opened in 2001<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is based at Astor College.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is also a community theatre based at St Edmund's Catholic School<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twin_towns">Twin towns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Twin towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of twin towns and sister cities in the United Kingdom">List of twin towns and sister cities in the United Kingdom</a></div> <p>Dover is <a href="/wiki/Sister_city" title="Sister city">twinned</a> with: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calais,_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Calais, France">Calais</a>, France<sup id="cite_ref-Archant_twinning_3_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Archant_twinning_3-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huber_Heights,_Ohio" title="Huber Heights, Ohio">Huber Heights</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, United States</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Split,_Croatia" title="Split, Croatia">Split</a>, Croatia<sup id="cite_ref-Split_twinnings_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Split_twinnings-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Dover, <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Barbados" title="Christ Church, Barbados">Christ Church, Barbados</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Sports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dover District Leisure Centre operated by Places Leisure<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> located in Whitfield opened in March 2019 replacing the previous facility on Townwall Street, which was operated by Your Leisure, a not for profit charitable trust,<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which caters for sports and includes a swimming pool. </p><p>There are sports clubs, among them <a href="/wiki/Dover_Athletic_F.C." title="Dover Athletic F.C.">Dover Athletic F.C.</a>, who play in the <a href="/wiki/Isthmian_League" title="Isthmian League">Isthmian League</a>; rugby; swimming; water polo and netball (Dover and District Netball League).<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dover Rowing Club is the oldest coastal rowing club in Britain and has a rich history, at one time becoming the best club on the south coast. More information can be found on the history page of the club's website.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One event which gets media attention is that of <a href="/wiki/English_Channel#By_swimming" title="English Channel">swimming the English Channel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sea fishing, from the beach, pier or out at sea, is carried out here.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The so-called <a href="/wiki/Solea_solea" class="mw-redirect" title="Solea solea">Dover sole</a> (<i>solea solea</i>) is found all over European waters. </p><p>Dover is now the host of a variety of watersports; such as paddle-boarding and kayaking. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Dover" title="List of people from Dover">List of people from Dover</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_literature">In literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: In literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M.R._James" class="mw-redirect" title="M.R. James">M.R. James</a> located part of his 1911 ghost story "<a href="/wiki/Casting_the_Runes" title="Casting the Runes">Casting the Runes</a>", from <i><a href="/wiki/More_Ghost_Stories" title="More Ghost Stories">More Ghost Stories</a></i>, in the town's Lord Warden Hotel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a> used the setting of Dover in his 19th-century poem, <i>Dover Beach</i>.</li> <li>Dover features several times in <i><a href="/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities" title="A Tale of Two Cities">A Tale of Two Cities</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Hoban" title="Russell Hoban">Russell Hoban</a> repurposed Dover as "Do It Over" in his 1980, post apocalyptic novel <i><a href="/wiki/Riddley_Walker" title="Riddley Walker">Riddley Walker</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Wye,_Kent" title="Wye, Kent">Wye</a> became "How"; <a href="/wiki/Canterbury" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a>, "Cambry", and <a href="/wiki/Ashford,_Kent" title="Ashford, Kent">Ashford</a>, "Bernt Arse".<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_song">In song</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: In song"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/(There%27ll_Be_Bluebirds_Over)_The_White_Cliffs_of_Dover" title="(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover">(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Vera_Lynn" title="Vera Lynn">Vera Lynn</a>, recorded in 1942.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Cliffs_of_Dover_(composition)" title="Cliffs of Dover (composition)">Cliffs of Dover</a>" is an instrumental rock composition by the American guitarist, singer and songwriter <a href="/wiki/Eric_Johnson_(guitarist,_born_1954)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eric Johnson (guitarist, born 1954)">Eric Johnson</a>, released on his 1990 studio album <i><a href="/wiki/Ah_Via_Musicom" title="Ah Via Musicom">Ah Via Musicom</a></i>.</li> <li>"Clover Over Dover" by British band <a href="/wiki/Blur_(band)" title="Blur (band)">Blur</a> is track 12 on their 1994 album <i><a href="/wiki/Parklife" title="Parklife">Parklife</a></i>.</li> <li>"Calais to Dover" by American band <a href="/wiki/Bright_Eyes_(band)" title="Bright Eyes (band)">Bright Eyes</a> is track 13 on their 2020 album <i><a href="/wiki/Down_in_the_Weeds,_Where_the_World_Once_Was" title="Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was">Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was</a></i>.</li> <li>"Dover Beach" by <a href="/wiki/Baby_Queen" title="Baby Queen">Baby Queen</a> is on her 2021 album <i>The Yearbook</i>. She wrote the song following a visit to Dover, taking inspiration from <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Arnold" title="Matthew Arnold">Matthew Arnold</a>'s poem of the same name. Queen filmed an accompanying music video at Samphire Hoe.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Strait_of_Dover" title="Strait of Dover">Strait of Dover</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dover&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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title="Elvington, Kent">Elvington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewell_Minnis" title="Ewell Minnis">Ewell Minnis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eythorne" title="Eythorne">Eythorne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farthingloe" title="Farthingloe">Farthingloe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finglesham" title="Finglesham">Finglesham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frogham,_Kent" title="Frogham, Kent">Frogham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goodnestone,_Dover" title="Goodnestone, Dover">Goodnestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Mongeham" title="Great Mongeham">Great Mongeham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Mongeham" title="Little Mongeham">Little Mongeham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guston,_Kent" title="Guston, Kent">Guston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hacklinge" title="Hacklinge">Hacklinge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ham,_Kent" title="Ham, Kent">Ham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoaden" title="Hoaden">Hoaden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hougham,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Hougham, Kent">Hougham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kearsney,_Kent" title="Kearsney, Kent">Kearsney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingsdown,_Dover" title="Kingsdown, Dover">Kingsdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knowlton,_Kent" title="Knowlton, Kent">Knowlton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langdon,_Kent" title="Langdon, Kent">Langdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lydden" title="Lydden">Lydden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marley,_Deal" class="mw-redirect" title="Marley, Deal">Marley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshborough" title="Marshborough">Marshborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin,_Kent" title="Martin, Kent">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Mill" title="Martin Mill">Martin Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxton,_Kent" title="Maxton, Kent">Maxton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonington" title="Nonington">Nonington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northbourne,_Kent" title="Northbourne, Kent">Northbourne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston-next-Wingham" title="Preston-next-Wingham">Preston-next-Wingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richborough" title="Richborough">Richborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ringwould" title="Ringwould">Ringwould</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ripple,_Kent" title="Ripple, Kent">Ripple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River,_Kent" title="River, Kent">River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shepherdswell" title="Shepherdswell">Shepherdswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sholden" title="Sholden">Sholden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snowdown" title="Snowdown">Snowdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Margaret%27s_at_Cliffe" title="St Margaret's at Cliffe">St Margaret's at Cliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Staple,_Kent" title="Staple, Kent">Staple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stourmouth" title="Stourmouth">Stourmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutton,_Kent" title="Sutton, Kent">Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swingate" class="mw-redirect" title="Swingate">Swingate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_Ewell" title="Temple Ewell">Temple Ewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tilmanstone" title="Tilmanstone">Tilmanstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waldershare" title="Waldershare">Waldershare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ware,_Kent" title="Ware, Kent">Ware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Langdon" title="West Langdon">West Langdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Studdal" title="West Studdal">West Studdal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Cliffe" title="West Cliffe">West Cliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westmarsh" title="Westmarsh">Westmarsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitfield,_Kent" title="Whitfield, Kent">Whitfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wingham,_Kent" title="Wingham, Kent">Wingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodnesborough" title="Woodnesborough">Woodnesborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wootton,_Kent" title="Wootton, Kent">Wootton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worth,_Kent" title="Worth, Kent">Worth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Medway" title="Medway">Medway</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Boroughs or districts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Ashford" title="Borough of Ashford">Ashford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Canterbury" title="City of Canterbury">Canterbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Dartford" title="Borough of Dartford">Dartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_District" title="Dover District">Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folkestone_and_Hythe_District" title="Folkestone and Hythe District">Folkestone and Hythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravesham" title="Gravesham">Gravesham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Maidstone" title="Borough of Maidstone">Maidstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sevenoaks_District" title="Sevenoaks District">Sevenoaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Swale" title="Borough of Swale">Swale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanet_District" title="Thanet District">Thanet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonbridge_and_Malling" title="Tonbridge and Malling">Tonbridge and Malling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Tunbridge_Wells" title="Borough of Tunbridge Wells">Tunbridge Wells</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Major settlements<br />(cities in italics)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashford,_Kent" title="Ashford, Kent">Ashford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broadstairs" title="Broadstairs">Broadstairs</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canterbury" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chatham,_Kent" title="Chatham, Kent">Chatham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cranbrook,_Kent" title="Cranbrook, Kent">Cranbrook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dartford" title="Dartford">Dartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deal,_Kent" title="Deal, Kent">Deal</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Dover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edenbridge,_Kent" title="Edenbridge, Kent">Edenbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faversham" title="Faversham">Faversham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folkestone" title="Folkestone">Folkestone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fordwich" title="Fordwich">Fordwich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillingham,_Kent" title="Gillingham, Kent">Gillingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravesend" title="Gravesend">Gravesend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkinge" title="Hawkinge">Hawkinge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herne_Bay" title="Herne Bay">Herne Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hythe,_Kent" title="Hythe, Kent">Hythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lydd" title="Lydd">Lydd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maidstone" title="Maidstone">Maidstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margate" title="Margate">Margate</a></li> <li><a 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title="Snodland">Snodland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southborough,_Kent" title="Southborough, Kent">Southborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strood" title="Strood">Strood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swanley" title="Swanley">Swanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenterden" title="Tenterden">Tenterden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonbridge" title="Tonbridge">Tonbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walmer" title="Walmer">Walmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Malling" title="West Malling">West Malling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westerham" title="Westerham">Westerham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westgate-on-Sea" title="Westgate-on-Sea">Westgate-on-Sea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitstable" title="Whitstable">Whitstable</a><br /><i>See also:</i> <b><a href="/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_Kent" title="List of civil parishes in Kent">List of civil parishes in Kent</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivers</th><td 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