Drive-Time (Via Michelin): Embry to Dover Castle:
Embry to Coquelles EuroTunnel: 1hr 5 mins (60 miles incl motorways)
EuroTunnel: Waiting-Time plus 35 mins for the train.
Folkestone EuroTunnel to Dover Castle: 29 mins (13 miles)
EuroTunnel Costs for 1-day Return: Circa £110 to £540, per vehicle.
(Since BREXIT the costs have gone up dramatically!)
Address: Castle Hill, Dover, Kent CT16 1HU
Web: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk /daysout/properties/dover-castle
Admission: English Heritage Members: Free
Adults: £17
Family: £44.20 (2 adults + 3 children)
Opening Hours: Click Here for details.
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Commanding the shortest sea crossing between England and the continent, Dover Castle has a long and immensely eventful history. Many centuries before King Henry II began the great stone castle here in the 1160s, its spectacular site atop the famous ‘White Cliffs’ was an Iron Age hill fort, and it still houses a Roman lighthouse, one of the best-preserved in Europe. The Anglo-Saxon church beside it was once probably part of a Saxon fortified settlement: very soon after his victory at Hastings in 1066, this was converted by William the Conqueror into a Norman earthwork and timber-stockaded castle. From then on Dover Castle was garrisoned uninterruptedly until 1958, a continuous nine-century span equalled only by the Tower of London and Windsor Castle. The stronghold hosted royal visits by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Charles I’s Queen Henrietta Maria: and from 1740 until 1945, its defences were successively updated in response to every European war involving Britain.
