What is recorded here

The Spur, Dover Castle is a castle in Dover, England. Perhaps the spur is a rib of white stone throwing out from the main castle body, the kind of place where a guard could stand with one foot in shadow and one in daylight. Maybe it was built to overlap the defences, so an attacker would never know which wall was the real one. Imagine climbing it at dusk, when the whole castle stops being a picture and becomes a machine for seeing people coming.

The Spur, 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.

The Spur, Dover Castle was built by the Normans in the 12th century to strengthen the defenses of Dover, a key strategic port. It is important as part of the extensive fortifications of Dover Castle, which played a significant role in England's military and political history.

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