Infobox Military Structure name DoverCastle partof location Dover , Kent , England map type Kent map alt latitude 51.1297 longitude 1.3214 coordinates image File Keep and entrance of DoverCastle, 2007.jpg 300px caption Entrance to DoverCastle viewed from the north west type Norman architecture Norman ... First Barons War DoverCastle is a medieval castle in the Dover town of the same name in the English ... 10 03.jpg thumb upright left The Roman lighthouse at DoverCastle Originally the site may have been ... built from scratch nearby. Henry II to early modern times Image Dovercastle wall.jpg thumb 200px .... Napoleonic File DoverCastle, illustration by Amelia Long.jpg thumb Undated sketch by Amelia Long ... the town s defences, completed the remodelling of the outer defences of DoverCastle adding the huge ... to walk down. The castle today DoverCastle is a Scheduled Monument , ref citation url http www.pastscape.org.uk hob.aspx?hob id 467778 title DoverCastle work Pastscape publisher English Heritage accessdate ... http www.heritagegateway.org.uk Gateway Results Single.aspx?uid 177823&resourceID 5 title DoverCastle ... head of the castle, in his conjoint position of Constable of DoverCastle , and the Deputy Constable ... of Leading Visitor Attractions, over 300,000 people visited DoverCastle in 2009. ref ... Goodall, John, http www.deremilitari.org RESOURCES ARTICLES goodall.htm DoverCastle and the Great ... Jeffrey, Kate, Dovercastle , Published by English Heritage, 1997 Further reading citation last Coad first Jonathan title Book of DoverCastle and the Defences of Dover publisher B. T. Batsford ... Bibliography of sources relating to DoverCastle http viewfinder.english heritage.org.uk search ...&mainQuery dover 20castle 20&searchType all&form home DoverCastle images http www.dover castle friends.org Friends of DoverCastle Museums in Kent Category Visitor attractions in Kent Category History ... Category World War II museums in the United Kingdom bg de DoverCastle es Castillo ... more details
Infobox Ship Begin Infobox Ship Image Ship image File HMHS Dover Castle.jpg 300px DoverCastle Ship caption The DoverCastle before her wartime service Infobox Ship Career Hide header Ship name DoverCastle Ship owner Union Castle Line Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ship operator Ship registry Ship route Ship ordered Ship builder Barclay Curle Barclay Curle & Company , Glasgow Ship original cost Ship yard number 443 Ship way number Ship laid down Ship launched 4 February 1904 Ship completed Ship christened Ship acquired Ship maiden voyage Ship in service Ship out of service Ship identification Ship fate Torpedoed by German U boat SM UC 67 UC 67 ref name wrecksite.Dover.Castle cite web date 2009 url http www.wrecksite.eu wreck.aspx?32064 title HMHS DoverCastle 1917 format publisher wrecksite accessdate August 21, 2009 last quote ref Ship notes Infobox Ship Characteristics Ship tonnage 8,271 tonnes ref name HMHSDoverCastle cite web date 2009 url http www.roll of honour.com Ships HMHSDoverCastle.html title HMHS DOVERCASTLE format publisher Roll of Honour.com accessdate August 22, 2009 last quote ref Ship length convert 476.4 ft m abbr on Ship beam convert 56.7 ft m abbr on Ship draught convert 31.9 ft m abbr on Ship propulsion Steam, quadruple expansion engines, 969 nhp Ship speed convert 14.5 kn km h lk on Ship range Ship complement Ship notes HMHS DoverCastle His Majesty s Hospital Ship was a steam ship originally built for the Union Castle Line , but requisitioned ... by German U boat SM UC 67 UC 67 . History SS DoverCastle was built by Barclay Curle Barclay Curle ... War I Category Ships of the Union Castle Line Category Ships sunk by German submarines de DoverCastle ... Castle Line Union Castle Mail Steamship Company , of London . Sinking She was torpedoed by the German ... and reference tags reflist External links coord 37 45 00 N 007 45 00 E display title DEFAULTSORT DoverCastle Category 1904 ships Category Clyde built ships Category World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean ... more details
18 ref Services related to the Port of Dover provide a great deal of the town s employment, as does tourism , although many of the former ferry services have declined. There was a military barracks in Dover, which was closed in 2007. History Main History of Dover File DoverCastleCastle Street .JPG thumb 160px left DoverCastle seen from Castle Street. Dover s name originated with its river the River ... the Dover Western Heights Western Heights and the eastern high point on which DoverCastle stands ... date accessdate 2010 04 18 ref Connaught Park Cowgate Nature Reserve DoverCastleDover Museum ... title The history of the castle, town, and port of Dover last Statham first S.P.H. publisher Longmans ... Society http www.dover castle friends.org membership Friends of DoverCastle A scheme for the local people of Dover to contribute and benefit from their Castle. http www.dovercommunityradio.co.uk ...two other uses the English town the larger local government district Dover district other uses Dover disambiguation infobox UK place country England static image File Dover from air.jpg 270px static image caption small Aerial view of Dover Harbour small official name Dover latitude 51.1295 longitude ... Dover district Dover shire county Kent region South East England constituency westminster Dover UK Parliament constituency Dover post town DOVER postcode district CT16, CT17 postcode area CT dial code 01304 os grid reference TR315415 london distance 77.8mi Dover IPAc en icon d o v r is a town ... . The town is the administrative centre of the Dover district Dover District and home of the Dover Calais ferry through the Port of Dover . The surrounding chalk cliffs have become known as the White cliffs of Dover , and the narrow sea passage nearby the Strait of Dover . ref The French name ... has been inhabited since the Stone Age according to archeological finds, and Dover is one of only .... Dover s history, because of its proximity to France , has always been of great strategic importance ... more details
TOCright Dover is a port town in Kent in South East England. Dover may also refer to Placenames Australia Dover, Tasmania Dover Island Tasmania Dover Heights, New South Wales Canada Dover, Calgary , Alberta Dover, Newfoundland and Labrador Dover, Nova Scotia Port Dover, Ontario Little Dover, Nova Scotia Singapore Dover, Singapore Dover MRT Station United Kingdom Dover district Dover, Kent White Cliffs of Dover Straits of Dover United States Dover, Arkansas Dover, Delaware , the state capital Dover Air Force Base Dover Downs , horse harness racing track Dover International Speedway , a NASCAR race track located at Dover Downs Dover, Florida Dover, Idaho Dover, Illinois Dover, Indiana Dover, Kansas Dover, Kentucky Dover, Maine , merged with Foxcroft since 1922 to form a single town Dover, Massachusetts Dover, Minnesota Dover, Missouri Dover, New Hampshire Dover, New Jersey Dover, New York Dover, North Carolina Dover, Ohio Dover, Oklahoma Dover, Pennsylvania , involved in the Dover trial Dover, Tennessee Dover, Utah , a ghost town Dover, Vermont Dover, Virginia Dover, Buffalo County, Wisconsin Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin Dover Plains, New York Dover Township disambiguation any of several townships People Ben Dover born 1955 , English pornographic actor and director Connie Dover , American singer songwriter Den Dover born 1938 , British politician Eric Dover born 1967 , American musician Gabriel Dover , British geneticist Kenneth Dover 1920 2010 , British academic former Chancellor of the University of St Andrews Mildred Dover born 1941 , former Canadian politician Robert Dover Cotswold Games 1575 1641 , English captain and attorney Robert Dover equestrian born 1958 , American Olympic equestrian Other uses Dover Corporation , a diversified industrial manufacturer Dover UK Parliament constituency , the Parliamentary constituency that includes Dover, England DoverCastle , Kent, England Port of Dover , a cross channel port in South East England Dover sole disambiguation ... more details
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dover , after the England English town and seaport of Dover HMS Dover 1649 6 was a Pink ship pink captured from the cavalier Royalists in 1649 and sold in 1650. HMS Dover 1654 6 was a 48 gun ship launched in 1654, rebuilt in 1695 and 1716 and broken up in 1730. HMS Dover 1672 6 was an 8 gun dogger captured from the Dutch in 1672 and given away in 1677. HMS Dover 1740 6 was a 44 gun fifth rate launched in 1740 and sold in 1763. HMS Dover 1786 6 was a 44 gun fifth rate launched in 1786 and burnt by accident in 1806. HMS Duncan 1804 HMS Dover was a 38 gun fifth rate, previously the East Indiaman Carron . She was purchased in 1804 and renamed HMS Duncan 1804 HMS Duncan . She was renamed HMS Dover in 1807 and was wrecked in 1811. HMS Dover 1811 6 was a 38 gun troopship , previously the French ship Bellone . She was captured in 1811, used for harbour service from 1825 and was sold in 1836. HMS Dover 1840 6 was an iron paddle Packet ship packet launched in 1840. She was the first iron ship in the Royal Navy, and was sold in 1866. See also HMS Dover Prize HMS DoverCastle was a planned Castle class corvette Castle class corvette , cancelled in 1943. Shipindex DEFAULTSORT Dover, Hms Category Royal Navy ship names ... more details
that they also constructed a fort on what is now the site of DoverCastle to protect the port. Dover became one of the three important towns in Kent, after Canterbury Durovernum and Rochester ... English the establishment of Christianity in Kent . The story of DoverCastle may well have begun ... of DoverCastle, who was given the additional title of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports . The period ... evidence suggests that a new castle was constructed near the Saxon church of St Mary in Castro, Dover St Mary in Castro in what is now DoverCastle , rather than or as well as repairing the old burgh ... A great deal of Saxon Dover was rebuilt. By 1190 the new DoverCastle was complete, and maritime ... resources articles goodall.htm DoverCastle and the Great Siege of 1216 ref in 1295 a French ... VIII of England Henry VIII improvements were made to Dover s defences, both to the castle and the Moat ... the seafront and across the Dover Western Heights Western Heights to supplement the medieval castle ... bomb to be dropped on England fell near DoverCastle on Christmas Eve 1914 and shelled by passing warships ...The History of Dover , because of the town s proximity to the Europe Continent begins when Stone Age ... the emphasis has tended to be on the growth of Dover as a commercial port, both for passenger and freight ... that Dover was becoming a place of trade with the Continent and Ireland . The so called Beaker culture ... near Dover. In addition two other finds of great importance in Dover s history are now displayed in Dover Museum, England Dover Museum a Dover Bronze Age boat boat and a hoard of axes, the latter discovered in Langdon Bay , off Dover. Small Iron Age finds have also been discovered . ref Kent History Illustrated Frank W Jessup 1966 Kent County Council publication ref Roman Dover and after main Dubris From now on the history of Dover is completely one with the sea. Roman Dover, or Dubris Portus ... the mouth of the River Dour, Kent on which Dover stands. The Romans, for whom the port was a base ... more details
Dover is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin Dover, Buffalo County, Wisconsin Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin geodis ... more details
The following train stations all have Dover in their names United Kingdom Dover Priory railway station in Dover in Kent. See also List of railway stations in Dover United States Dover Amtrak station in Dover, New Hampshire. Dover Plains Metro North station in Dover Plains, New York. Dover NJT station in Dover, New Jersey. Singapore Dover MRT Station in Dover in Singapore. disambig ... more details
they saw fit, meeting successively in Wilmington, Lewes, Dover, New Castle, and Lewes again, until it finally settled down permanently in Dover in October 1781. ref Munroe, John A. History of Delaware ... sizable civilian airport to Dover is the New Castle Airport in New Castle, Delaware New Castle ...Geobox City Name section name City of Dover native name other name huh other name1 category List of cities in Delaware City Image image Dover Delaware.jpg image size image caption West Loockerman Street in downtown Dover in 2001 Symbols flag flag size symbol type symbol symbol size Nickname & motto nickname ... Locator Map.PNG map size map caption Location of Dover in Delaware map locator Delaware map1 Map ... The city of Dover is the capital and second largest city ref name popest2 cite web date June ... , and the principal city of the Dover, Delaware Dover metropolitan area Metropolitan Statistical ... coastal plain. It was named by William Penn for Dover in Kent , England . As of 2010, the city had ... History Dover was founded as the court town for newly established Kent County, Delaware Kent County ... General Assembly . The capital of the state of Delaware was moved here from New Castle, Delaware New Castle in 1777 due to its central location and relative safety from British raiders on the Delaware ... remains the heart of Dover s historic district and is the location of the Delaware Supreme Court and the Kent County Courthouse. Dover was most famously the home of Caesar Rodney , the popular wartime leader of Delaware during the American Revolution . He is known to have been buried outside Dover ... of the http www.christchurchdover.org Christ Episcopal Church near The Green in Dover. Dover ..., by a small majority, who saw to its continuation. Geography Dover is located at Coord 39 ... is 1.32 water. Dover has a humid subtropical climate K ppen climate classification K ppen Cfa with four ... is spread rather evenly year round. Weather box location Dover, Delaware single line Y Jan high ... more details
Dover Township may refer to the following places In Canada Dover Township, Ontario , a defunct township now part of Chatham Kent In the United States Dover Township, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Dover Township, Pope County, Arkansas Dover Township, Lake County, Michigan Dover Township, Lenawee County, Michigan Dover Township, Otsego County, Michigan Dover Township, Minnesota Dover Township, New Jersey , the former name of Toms River Township Dover Township, Athens County, Ohio Dover Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio , a defunct township Dover Township, Fulton County, Ohio Dover Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio Dover Township, Union County, Ohio Dover Township, York County, Pennsylvania See also Dover disambiguation Geodis de Dover Township ... more details
Dover Road may refer to The former name of A2 road Great Britain Dover Road Reisterstown , a road in Reisterstown, Maryland A road in Dover, Singapore The Dover Road a play and film disambig ... more details
Dover may refer to the following places in the U.S. state of Michigan Dover, Cass County, Michigan , a former post office in Milton Township Dover, Clare County, Michigan , an unincorporated community in Grant Township Dover, Lenawee County, Michigan , a former post office in Dover Township Dover, Washtenaw County, Michigan , an unincorporated community in Dexter Township See also Mount Morris, Michigan , initially platted in 1862 with the name DoverDover Township, Lake County, Michigan Dover Township, Lenawee County, Michigan Dover Township, Otsego County, Michigan geodis ... more details
The NASCAR Nationwide Series holds two races each year that take place at Dover International Speedway , both of which have been known as Dover 200 at one time Dover 200 Spring Race The spring early summer race known as the Dover 200 in 2007 Dover 200 Fall Race The fall race known as the Dover 200 from 2005 2006, and again starting in 2009 disambig Category NASCAR Nationwide Series races de Dover 200 ... more details
Robert Dover may refer to Robert Dover Cotswold Games 1575 1641 , English captain and attorney founder of the Cotswold Olimpick Games Robert Dover equestrian born 1956 , American Olympic horse rider hndis Dover, Robert ... more details
Dover Hundred was a List of Delaware Hundreds hundred in Kent County, Delaware Kent County , Delaware , United States . Dover Hundred was created in 1682 as St. Jones Hundred. It was renamed Dover Hundred in 1823. In 1859, Dover Hundred was divided into East Dover Hundred Coord 39.11234444 75.74507778 format dms display inline, title and West Dover Hundred Coord 39.65875278 75.56785833000001 format dms display inline . Kent County, Delaware Category Hundreds in Kent County, Delaware Delaware geo stub ... more details
in the Saxon burgh at DoverCastle by King Eadbald of Kent 616 640 , possibly related to the Saxon church of St Mary de Castro Dover St Mary de Castro there. Taking their existing rights ...Infobox monastery name Dover Priory image alt caption full The Priory of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Martin ... access By permission other info Site occupied by Dover College TOCright The Priory of St. Mary the Virgin and Martin of Tours St. Martin of the New Work, or Newark , commonly called Dover Priory , was a priory at Dover in southeast England. It was variously independent in rule, then occupied by canons ... of what is now Dover Priory railway station , in fact the railway was built on the western part of the site ... Priory Road and the later Effingham Street in the area of Norman Street and Saxon Street. Dover College ... Since the Castle church, which had been their original Saxon home, was in some sense a Royal Chapel ... , William de Corbeil , wanted to bring an end to this and extend his influence to Dover. Therefore ... a charter allowing him to transfer their assets to a new Priory of St Martin in Dover, whilst leaving ... s control its few remains can now be seen on the western side of Market Square, near Dover Museum . A site ... the following 2 centuries between the monks of the cathedral and the canons of Dover Priory. 1150 .... It was probably three times as long as St. Mary s Church in Dover, with a general plan perhaps comparable ... s transept s north wall, and about an eighth was a refectory . ref C.R. Haines Dover Priory A history ... the Dover Bible one of only six surviving giant Romanesque art Romanesque Bibles in the Parker Library ... in the life of the town first came to Dover with the express purpose of exploiting the lands and tithes ... were drained and this portion of the grounds became Priory Gate Road and part of the yard of Dover Priory railway station . Dover College Seealso Dover College Foundation In 1869 Robert Chignell, who ... school. He passed on his interest, however, to a group of leading citizens in Dover who had ... more details
Several naval engagements that occurred somewhere in the vicinity of Dover , England , are known as the Battle of Dover Note all dates after 1584 in the Gregorian calendar The Battle of Dover 1217 Battle of Dover , 24 August 1217, in the First Barons War . The Battle of Goodwin Sands , 29 May 1652, in the First Anglo Dutch War . The Battle of the Kentish Knock , 8 October 1652, in the First Anglo Dutch War . The Four Days Battle , 11 June &ndash 14 June 1666, in the Second Anglo Dutch War . The Battle of Dover Strait , 21 April 1917, in World War I . The name may also refer to the Battle of Dover 1863 Battle of Dover fought near Dover, Tennessee on February 3, 1863 in the American Civil War . disambig Category History of Dover Category Military history of Kent ... more details
Dover Hill can refer to Dover Hill, Indiana , a town in the USA. SS Dover Hill , a UK cargo ship completed in 1918 as the SS Clan Macvicar , renamed SS Dover Hill in 1936 and scuttled in the Normandy landings in 1944. SS List of Empire ships N Empire Nairobi Empire Nairobi , a UK Empire ship built in 1945, renamed SS Dover Hill in 1946, renamed five more times between 1951 and 1966 and scrapped in 1968. Shipindex ... more details
Dover sole refers to two species of flatfish The common sole, Solea solea , found in European waters, the Dover sole of European cookery. Microstomus pacificus , found in the northeastern Pacific and called Dover sole along the Pacific coast of America. disambig ... more details
Baron Dover is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of England , once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . All three creations are now extinct. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1685 when Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover Henry Jermyn was made Baron Dover . In 1703 he also succeeded his elder brother as Baron Jermyn . For more information on this creation, see the latter title. The second creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1788 when then soldier General Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover Sir Joseph Yorke was made Lord Dover , Baron of the Town and Port of Dover, in the County of Kent. He was the third son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke . The peerage became extinct on Lord Dover s death in 1792. The third creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1831 when the politician George Agar Ellis, 1st Baron Dover George Agar Ellis was created Baron Dover , of Dover in the County of Kent. He was the only son of Henry Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden . For more information on this creation, see Viscount Clifden . Barons Dover 1685 see Baron Jermyn Barons Dover 1788 Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dover 1724 1792 Barons Dover 1831 see Viscount Clifden See also Duke of Dover Earl of Dover Earl of Hardwicke References Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David editors . Debrett s Peerage and Baronetage 1990 edition . New York St Martin s Press, 1990. rayment http www.gazette online.co.uk SearchResults.aspx?GeoType London&st adv&sb date&exact Lord 20Dover& The London Gazette DEFAULTSORT Dover Category Baronies Category Extinct baronies Category Yorke family Baron ... more details
for the current club based in DoverDover Athletic F.C. Image DoverFC1903.jpg thumb right 300px The Dover team of 1903 Dover F.C. was a association football football club based in Dover , Kent , England . The club joined the Kent League in 1894, but folded in 1901. ref name R http www.rsssf.com tablese engkenthist.html RSSSF ref Dover F.C. was revived a year later, this time as a purely amateur club, and rejoined the Kent League, but folded again in 1909. ref name R The club reformed once again, this time as Dover United F.C. and playing in local leagues, in 1920 but disbanded for the third time in 1933. A further incarnation of the club, once again under the name Dover F.C., began play a year later, only to fold yet again in 1947. A new semi professional Dover F.C. was immediately formed and rejoined the Kent League, going on to win the league championship twice in the 1950s before progressing to the Southern Football League Southern League . Dover won the championship of Division One in 1967 and gained promotion to the Premier Division, where the club spent eleven seasons before being relegated. In 1983 the club folded due to its massive debts. ref name FCHD fchd name Dover id DOVER ref A new club, Dover Athletic F.C. Dover Athletic , took over its place in the league and remains active to this day. ref name FCHD2 fchd name Dover Athletic id DOVERA ref References reflist External links http talesftre.tripod.com doverfootballclub Dover Football Club history site England footyclub defunct stub Category Defunct English football clubs Category Sport in Kent Category Dover ... more details
other uses Wikisource Dover Beach Dover Beach is a short lyric poetry lyric poem by England English poet ... title Where Is Our Dover Beach? accessdate 2007 08 02 work Time magazine Time article quote a brief ... lines is the shore of the English ferry port of Dover , Kent facing Calais , France at the Strait of Dover ... name Allott, 1965, p.240 Analysis Dover Beach is a difficult poem to analyze some of its passages and metaphors ..., pg. 39 40 ref Arnold begins with a naturalistic and detailed nightscape of the beach at Dover in which ... in the plays of Sophocles is strictly applicable to the passage in Dover Beach . He feels ... separates England from continental Europe and is the body of water that forms Dover beach. ref Having .... ref and the dramatic character of the poem. ref Honan, 1981, pg. 235. Also see Dover Bitch discussed ... already in existence when the portion regarding the ebb and flow of the sea at Dover was composed ..., Where ignorant armies clash by night. Arnold s visits to Dover may also provide some clue to the date of composition. Allott has Arnold in Dover in June 1851 and again in October of that year on his return from his delayed continental honeymoon. To critics who conclude that ll. 1 28 were written at Dover ... lines were written at Dover in late June, while ll. 29 37 were written in London shortly afterwards ... wave. Anthony Hecht , Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry US Poet Laureate , replied to Dover Beach in his poem http plagiarist.com poetry 2409 The Dover Bitch . So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl ... in a while And she always treats me right. ref Dover Bitch, by Anthony Hecht, in Matthew Arnold ..., N.J. ref Kenneth and Miriam Allott, referring to Dover Bitch as an irreverent jeu d esprit , nonetheless ..., Ohio University Press Athens, Ohio, pg. 88. ref Dover Beach has been mentioned in a number of novels, plays, poems, and films In Dodie Smith s novel, I Capture the Castle 1940 , the book s protagonist remarks that Debussy s Clair de Lune reminds her of Dover Beach in the film adaptation of the novel ... more details
Infobox Newspaper name The Dover Post type Weekly newspaper foundation 1975 ceased publication price owners GateHouse Media publisher Tom Quinn editor Maureen Raitz circulation headquarters 609 E. Division St. br Dover, Delaware Dover , Delaware DE 19903 br USA ISSN website http www.doverpost.com doverpost.com The Dover Post is a weekly newspaper and online website published in Dover, Delaware . The parent company of The Dover Post is GateHouse Media , a United States U.S. newspaper publisher, headquartered in Fairport, New York , that publishes 97 dailies in 20 states and 198 paid weeklies, in addition to free papers, shoppers and specialty and niche publications. GateHouse Media bought The Dover Post from Jim Flood, Sr. in 2008. External links http www.doverpost.com Official website Category Dover, Delaware Category Publications established in 1975 Category Weekly newspapers published in the United States Category Newspapers published in Delaware ... more details
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