The Port of Dover is a cross-channel ferry, cruise terminal, maritime cargo and marina facility situated in Dover, Kent, south-east England. It is the...
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Dover (/ˈdoʊvər/ 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...
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to Port Dover, Ontario. Port Dover is an unincorporated community and former town located in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake...
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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)...
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maintained by the owners of the Port of Dover, the Dover Harbour Board, the statutory undertakers. The force is maintained under the Dover Harbour Consolidation...
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The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait, historically known as the Dover Narrows, is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the...
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subject of the poem's descriptive opening lines is the shore of the English ferry port of Dover, in Kent, facing Calais, in France, at the Strait of Dover, the...
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Archcliffe Fort (category Forts in Dover, Kent)
installation in Dover, England. It is situated at the base of the Dover Western Heights and overlooks the approaches to the port of Dover. A watchtower...
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Lille-Europe and Paris Gare du Nord. Port of Dover France–UK border "About/Performance". Port of Dover. Retrieved 10 July 2018. "Port Boulogne Calais : Ferry pour...
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Look up Dover or dover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dover is a port town in Kent, in South East England. Dover may also refer to: Dover, Tasmania...
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Roach, Wallasea Island Port of London (includes Port of Tilbury) Sheerness Whitstable Sandwich Port of Ramsgate Port of Dover, Dover Folkestone Rye Harbour...
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connected the English port of Dover, with the French port of Dunkerque. After rationalisation of other Anglo-European train ferries, the Dover to Dunkerque sailing...
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of France started berthing trials in the Port of Dover and the following day arrived in Calais for berthing trials. The ship then departed for Dover and...
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defences and protect the key port of Dover from both seaward and landward attack; by the start of the 20th century Dover Western Heights was collectively...
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Channel Tunnel (redirect from Early conceptions of the Channel Tunnel)
3 million tonnes of freight), compared with 11.7 million passengers, 2.6 million lorries and 2.2 million cars by sea through the Port of Dover. Plans to build...
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Operation Stack (category Port of Dover, Kent)
Operation Stack was a procedure used by Kent Police and the Port of Dover in England to park (or "stack") lorries on the M20 motorway in Kent when services...
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History of Parliament, House of Commons 1386–1421, Stroud, 1992, vol.1, p.751, Cinque Ports Batcheller, William. New history of Dover & Dover Castle during...
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just before midnight, 58 dead bodies were found in a lorry in the port town of Dover, United Kingdom. Two people were found alive but injured and taken...
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English Channel migrant crossings (2018–present) (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from April 2023)
crossing the English Channel in the last decades. The Strait of Dover section between Dover in England and Calais in France represents the shortest sea...
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Kingdom, and roads in London and the Port of Dover. The protesters demand that the government improve the insulation of all social housing in the UK by 2025...
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Operation Brock (category Consequences of Brexit)
goods vehicles (HGVs) queuing for the Port of Dover. At this stage, Dover TAP is activated and all HGVs using the Port must use the A20 from Folkestone, queuing...
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Border checkpoint (redirect from Land port)
Port of Helsinki takes the top spot among European passenger ports". Port of Helsinki. Retrieved 5 October 2019. "About/Performance". Port of Dover....
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Kent (redirect from County of Kent, England)
was constructed to connect London to the Channel ports of Dover, Lympne and Richborough. The London–Dover road was Watling Street. These roads are now approximately...
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P&O dismissal controversy (redirect from P&O sacking of 800 staff)
shipping company P&O Ferries dismissed 800 members of its shipping staff, primarily from the Port of Dover, but also from Kingston upon Hull, Liverpool and...
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takeover, Dover Seaways continued on the Dover-Dunkerque route. On 9 November 2014, Dover Seaways collided with a harbour wall at the Port of Dover, shortly...
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MS Oscar Wilde (2010) (redirect from MV Spirit of Britain)
Dover's eastern docks. She sailed from the port at 13:30 for a special cruise before returning to Dover at 14:30. She resumed service between Dover and...
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MSC Poesia (category Ships of MSC Cruises)
officially named outside Italy, at the Port of Dover, Kent on 5 April 2008, by Sophia Loren. MSC Poesia was the flagship of the company until she was displaced...
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Port Dover was an episode during the War of 1812. American troops crossed Lake Erie to capture or destroy stocks of grain and destroy mills at Port Dover...
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Dover Priory railway station is the southern terminus of the South Eastern Main Line in England, and is the main station serving the town of Dover, Kent...
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members of the cast.[citation needed] The series was commissioned in June 2015, with location filming taking place in London and the Port of Dover. After...
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