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The Priory of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Martin of the New Work, or Newark, commonly called Dover Priory, was a priory at Dover in southeast England. It was variously independent in rule, then occupied by canons regular of the Augustinian rule, then finally monks of the Benedictine rule as a cell of Christchurch Monastery, Canterbury.
The town of Dover was incorporated in 1869 and George Richards was elected its first mayor. [4] That same year, he built a large commercial building on Blackwell Street. [5] It was a J. J. Newberry store in the 1940s. [6] The red brick Dover station was built in 1901 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. [7]
Dover Priory in 2007. Opened on 22 July 1861 as Dover Town (Priory) by the LCDR, [1] Dover Priory railway station became a through station on 1 November the same year, upon completion of a tunnel through the Western Heights connecting it to LCDR's new Dover Harbour Station in the Western Docks area.
Dover Priory railway station is the southern terminus of the South Eastern Main Line. It is the main station serving the town of Dover, in Kent, England; the other is Kearsney, on the outskirts. It is 77 miles 26 chains (124.4 km) down the line from London Victoria.
Dover College is an independent day and boarding school in the English public school tradition located in Dover in south east England. It was founded in 1871, and takes both day pupils and boarders from the UK and internationally. [2] The school occupies some of the medieval buildings of Dover Priory, on a site just east of the eponymous ...
This is a list of college towns, residential areas (towns, districts, etc.) that are socioeconomically dominated by a college or university, sorted by continent. Generally, to be classified as a college town, a town should exhibit one or more of the following: The town is known for the presence of a college or university.
St Edmund's Chapel is a church in Dover, England, dedicated to St Edmund.It was completed in 1262 as a wayside chapel or chapel of rest for the cemetery for the poor beside the Maison Dieu, just outside the enclosed part of the medieval town, a short distance above Biggin Gate, and for pilgrims setting off for Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury Cathedral.
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