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Constables Gate, Dover Castle

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Constables Gate, Dover Castle
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Constables Gate, Dover Castle stands at Dover, England. The castle gate faces the channel and the road, binding the town to the defended hill. A person walking through it today follows the same line of travel used by soldiers, merchants and visitors for centuries. The gate does not decorate the castle; it tells the visitor that the hill has rules.
Constables Gate, Dover Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of Dover. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Constables Gate is part of Dover Castle, a major medieval fortress in Kent, England, constructed and controlled by the English crown, notably expanded under King Henry II in the 12th century. It is important as a key component of the castle's defenses and as a symbol of England's strategic coastal defense system.

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