page_title: Dover
section_title: Places of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Dover / Places of interest
caption_attribution_description: English: Colton's Gate in Dover Castle
context_page_description: Dover is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Port of Dover. The surrounding chalk cliffs are known as the White Cliffs of Dover.
  Archaeological finds have revealed that the area has always been a focus for peoples entering and leaving Britain. The name derives from the River Dour that flows through it.
  The Port of Dover provides much of the town's employment, as does tourism.
context_section_description: Blériot memorial: the outline of Louis Blériot's aircraft, marked with granite setts, at the exact spot where Blériot landed after the first cross-Channel flight, 1909
  Dover Castle
  White Cliffs of Dover
  Dover Western Heights
  Dover Museum
  Roman Painted House Museum
  Maison Dieu, Dover
  Samphire Hoe
  South Foreland Lighthouse
  Pines Garden
  St Edmund's Chapel
  St Mary's Church
  St James' Church: preserved as a "tidy ruin"
  St Paul's Church
caption: Colton's Gate in Dover Castle
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