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Dover Castle, Kent: England’s strongest castle

Jack Watkins looks at the story and impact of The Great Tower at Dover Castle, the imposing creation of Henry II that still stands strong almost 900 years later.

Dover, sitting squarely on the south-east coast of England, has long been recognised as one of the country’s most strategically important sites, with a hill fort built here during the Iron Age; behind and flanking it are eight miles of tall chalk cliff, rising almost vertically from the sea, broken only by…

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