Dover (gbr)

Dover

Dover ranks 6,174th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Russi, Mandal, Norway, and Lancaster, New Hampshire. Memorable people born in Dover include Albert F. Mummery, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, and Joss Stone. Memorable people who died in Dover include Stephen, King of England, Richard of Chichester, and Allan Ramsay. Dover has been the birth place of many mountaineers, and military personnels and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Dover is located in United Kingdom.

Dover is a town and major ferry port in Kent, southeast England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at 33 kilometres (21 mi) from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies southeast of Canterbury and east of Maidstone. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District and home of the Port of Dover. Read more on Wikipedia