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Location Information:
Dover is a town and major ferry port
in the home county of Kent, in South
East England. It faces France across
the narrowest part of the English
Channel, and lies south-east of
Canterbury; east of Kent's
administrative capital Maidstone;
and north-east along the coastline
from Dungeness and Hastings. The
town is the administrative centre of
the Dover District, home of the
Dover Calais ferry through the Port
of Dover, and the point where the
Channel tunnel makes landfall. The
surrounding chalk cliffs have become
known as the White cliffs of Dover,
and the narrow sea passage nearby -
the Strait of Dover.
Its strategic position has always
been evident throughout its history:
archaeological finds have revealed
that the area has always been a
focus for peoples entering and
leaving Britain. The River Dour
originated the name of the town,
which has been inhabited since the
Stone Age according to archeological
finds, and Dover is one of only a
few places in Britain - London,
Cornwall and Canterbury being other
examples – to have a corresponding
name in the French language,
Douvres.
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