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Dover
Nursing Homes near Dover Kent
Approximate Population: 34,087
Dover is a major port town on the south-east coast in Kent, famous for its white cliffs. Dover has been a strategically important port for millennia. Bronze age axes and a bronze age boat are on display in the Dover Museum in Market Square. The town’s other museums include the Dover Transport Museum, and the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment Museum within Dover Castle. The Old Town Gaol in Biggin Street can also be visited. In around AD 50 the Romans built two lighthouses on either side of the town. One on the Western Heights, whose few remains are now within the Drop Redoubt, and the other which still stands to its full height in the grounds of Dover Castle.
By the Dover Experience building is the “Painted House”, one of the best preserved Roman mansions in Britain. On the same site are parts of Classis Britannica and Saxon Shore Forts. William the Conqueror took possession of Dover Castle shortly after the Battle of Hastings and fashioned it into the magnificent castle it is today. During World War II the White Cliffs upon which the castle stands concealed the operations unit where Churchill oversaw the Dunkirk invasion.
These tunnels are now open to the public. Maison Dieu, founded in 1203, forms part of the Old Town Hall buildings. The Western Heights were built between 1779 and 1804. They comprise a series of forts and ditches. Today much of the site is a country park. The Port of Dover was originally established in 1606. Cargo ships and over 15 million passengers travel through the port every year. Further up from the castle at Langdon Cliffs is five miles of coastal park owned by the National Trust. There is a visitor centre, coffee shop and fantastic views over the port.
