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  2. List of border crossing points in France - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of border crossing points in France (French: points de passages frontaliers, or "PPF") forming the external border of the Schengen Area.By contrast, the term points de passages autorisés ("PPA") refers to the crossing points at the border between France and other Schengen countries (i.e. internal borders of the Schengen Area).

  3. Channel Ports - Wikipedia

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    Some ferry companies divide their routes into "short" and "long" crossings. The broadest definition might be from Plymouth east to Kent and from Roscoff to Zeebrugge although a tighter definition would exclude ports west of Newhaven and Dieppe .

  4. Port of Dover - Wikipedia

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    It is the nearest English port to France, at just 34 kilometres (21 mi) away, and is one of the world's busiest maritime passenger ports, with 11.7 million passengers, 2.6 million lorries, 2.2 million cars and motorcycles and 80,000 coaches passing through it in 2017, [1] and with an annual turnover of £58.5 million a year. [2]

  5. European route E15 - Wikipedia

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    The E15 has a gap at the English Channel between Dover and Calais, France. There is a ferry link between Dover and Calais. The Eurotunnel Shuttle (using the Channel Tunnel) provides an alternative link via Folkestone. The roads in the UK are signed solely by the local number (e.g. M20).

  6. Brittany Ferries - Wikipedia

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    Brittany Ferries is the trading name of the French shipping company, BAI Bretagne Angleterre Irlande S.A. founded in 1973 by Alexis Gourvennec, that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between France and the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain, and between Spain and Ireland and the United Kingdom.

  7. Irish Ferries - Wikipedia

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    Irish Ferries route map. Since June 2021, Dover-Calais has also been operated. Irish Ferries is an Irish ferry and transport company that operates passenger and freight services on routes between Ireland, Britain and Continental Europe, including Dublin Port–Holyhead; Rosslare Europort to Pembroke as well as Dublin Port-Cherbourg in France.

  8. Ferry - Wikipedia

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    The busiest ferry route to France is the Dover to Calais crossing with approximately 9,168,000 passengers using the service in 2018. [25] Ferries from Great Britain also sail to Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Ireland.

  9. English Channel - Wikipedia

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    To achieve this France needed to gain control of the Channel for several weeks, but was thwarted following the British naval victory at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759 and was unsuccessful (The last French landing on English soil being in 1690 with a raid on Teignmouth, although the last French raid on British soil was a raid on Fishguard ...