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  2. Dover - Wikipedia

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    Dover (/ ˈ d oʊ v ər / DOH-vər) 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 at 33 kilometres (21 mi) from Cap Gris Nez in France.

  3. White Cliffs of Dover - Wikipedia

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    The White Cliffs of Dover are the region of English coastline facing the Strait of Dover and France. The cliff face, which reaches a height of 350 feet (110 m), owes its striking appearance to its composition of chalk accented by streaks of black flint , deposited during the Late Cretaceous .

  4. Kent - Wikipedia

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    Kent's geographical location between the Straits of Dover and London has influenced its architecture, as has its Cretaceous geology and its good farming land and fine building clays. Kent's countryside pattern was determined by a gavelkind inheritance system that generated a

  5. Dover, Delaware - Wikipedia

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    Dover (/ ˈ d oʊ v ər / DOH-vər) is the capital and the second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware. [3] It is also the county seat of Kent County and the principal city of the Dover metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Kent County and is part of the Philadelphia–Wilmington–Camden, PA–NJ–DE–MD, combined statistical area.

  6. File:Kent UK location map.svg - Wikipedia

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    Description: Map of Kent, UK with the following information shown: . Administrative borders; Coastline, lakes and rivers; Roads and railways; Urban areas; Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%

  7. Strait of Dover - Wikipedia

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    The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait, [a] historically known as the Dover Narrows, is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and the North Sea, and separating Great Britain from continental Europe.

  8. St Margaret's at Cliffe - Wikipedia

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    St. Margaret's at Cliffe is a three-part village situated just off the coast road between Deal and Dover in Kent, England.The centre of the village is about ¾ mile (1 km) from the sea, with the residential area of Nelson Park further inland, and St Margaret's Bay situated along and below the cliffs north of South Foreland.

  9. History of Dover - Wikipedia

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    Roman Canterbury, Richborough, Dover and Lympne on the Peutinger Map.. From now on the history of Dover is completely one with the sea. Roman Dover, or ‘’Portus Dubris’’ as it was called, was one of the three ports used for trade and the movement of the army; the other two being ‘'Lemanis'’ Lympne and ‘'Rutupiae'’ Richborough.