Located close to the border with Wales, Chester was a Roman settlement back in the first century AD. While some of this heritage remains, one of the key attractions of the city is the Chester Rows. This series of medieval architecture was actually built on top of ancient Roman Ruins in th...
The Boston & Maine became New Hampshire's largest provider of rail service, operating all through the state from Berlin in the north to Dover and Portsmouth along the coast. Virtually all of the state's largest and most significant towns and cities were served by the B&M. ...
…It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes. It has a flavour of its own. Moreover it is continuous, it stretches into the future and the past, there is something in it that persists, as in a ...
Central to that identity is the image of governmental frugality: New Hampshire has no general sales tax or individual income tax. Frugality at the state level has accentuated the dispersal of responsibility to towns. Although town governments exist in all the New England states, in no state do ...
s Endin the extreme southwest is a succession of sandstones of different colours and limestones of different ages, culminating in the white chalk from theIsle of WighttoDover. A varied panorama of cliffs, bays, and river estuaries distinguishes the English coastline, which, with its many ...
Richborough, site of a Roman port (Rutupiae) in Dover district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England, located just north of Sandwich. After the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 ce, Rutupiae was established to guard the Wantsum Channel, whic
Folkestone, town (parish), Shepway district, administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It is situated on the Strait of Dover, 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of Dover. The town is the administrative centre for the district. Once a
Under King Charles II, the crown began to align itself with France, then an ambitious continental power and the strongest of the Catholic kingdoms. Charles was a shrewd politician, and some years before his death in 1685, he signed the Treaty of Dover. In exchange for financial assistance ...