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Dover Museum collections include:
- Archaeology gallery — Dover and the Dover District Council area (including Deal and Walmer, which do not yet have their own town museum, only the Deal Maritime Museum) from prehistoric times to 1066, including Roman and Saxon Dover (including the Saxon cemetery from Buckland).
- History of Dover town, Cinque Ports and Dover Castle from 1066 to the modern era. This includes the Victoriana Museum collection, bequeathed in 1990 by William Williamson of Deal and including works by artists such as Dame Laura Knight, Lady Alma Tadema, Fantin Latour, J.F. Herring, Henry Bernard Chalon, David Cox, E.W. Cooke and Benjamin Robert Haydon. The 2003 Dover Bronze Age Boat gallery, where the Langdon Bay hoard is also displayed.
- Temporary exhibition gallery.
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The Eight Bells is a Wetherspoon pub in Dover, Kent. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm.
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The Cinque Port Arms is a 17th Century Public House located At The Western Docks Cruise Terminal just a 10 Min Walk to Town.
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The Samuel Peto is a Wetherspoon pub in Folkestone, Kent. Our pub offers a range of real ales, craft beers and freshly ground Lavazza coffee. Breakfast is served until noon, with our full food menu available until 11 pm.
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Located in the Royal Hotel on the seafront at Deal. The Boathouse Bar and Terrace restaurant has a range of delicious dishes that focus on seasonal Kentish produce.
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Dover Harbour Beach is a sheltered shingle beach set within the harbour walls. Facilities at the beach include parking, promenade, toilets, cafe/restaurant, kiosks, shops and water sports centre. The beach is located in Dover and so has easy access to the facilities of the town.
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Shakespeare Beach is the stretch of shingle beach to the west of Dover Harbour Admiralty Pier to the white chalk of Shakespeare Cliff. We have no dog information for Shakespeare beach.
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The shaft has a triple spiral staircase in fortifications and was created as when working on Western Heights, it soon became apparent that troop would be slow between the hill top forts and the beach below.
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