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Dover Castle is a medieval castle in Dover, Kent, England and is Grade I listed. It was founded in the 11th century and has been described as the "Key to England" due to its defensive significance throughout history. [1] [2] Some writers say it is the largest castle in England, [3] a title also claimed by Windsor Castle.
Internal structure of the Fan Bay Deep Shelter. Fan Bay Deep Shelter is a series of tunnels constructed during World War II as accommodation for Fan Bay Battery artillery battery, 23 metres down in the White Cliffs of Dover at Fan Bay near the Port of Dover.
Dover in 1884: the Castle is seen at the top (i.e. to the north-east); Western Heights is laid out below, to the west of the town and harbour. First given earthworks in 1779 against the planned invasion that year , the high ground west of Dover was properly fortified in 1804 when Lieutenant-Colonel William Twiss was instructed to modernise the ...
Plans have been revealed for what promises to be London’s most spectacular underground tourist attraction ever: a $268 million transformation of a mile-long series of World War II tunnels into a ...
The Kingsway Exchange Tunnels were built in the 1940s to shelter Londoners from the Blitz bombing campaign during World War II. That was the last time they were open to the general public.
In the 16th century, cannons were installed at the castle, but it became less important militarily as Henry VIII had built artillery forts along the coast. Dover Castle was captured in 1642 during the Civil War when the townspeople climbed the cliffs and surprised the royalist garrison, giving a symbolic victory against royal control.
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A series of caves and tunnels in the cliffs were used as air-raid shelters (and as a military base, coordinating Operation Dynamo, whose ships landed at Dover) during the war and Dover became a wartime symbol as part of East Kent's Hellfire Corner. Defences were constructed as a part of anti-invasion preparations.