The History of the Castle, Town, and Port of DoverLongmans, Green, and Company, 1899 - 462 pages |
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... walls and not as a church tower at all . A church planned from the beginning to in- clude and modify , by piercing arches in it , a central tower built for other purposes at an earlier period , obviously lies outside Mr. Micklethwaite's ...
... walls and not as a church tower at all . A church planned from the beginning to in- clude and modify , by piercing arches in it , a central tower built for other purposes at an earlier period , obviously lies outside Mr. Micklethwaite's ...
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... wall , nearly seventy miles in length , to be built from the Solway Firth to the Tyne . On some of the coins struck to commemorate his visit appears a seated figure armed with a spear and shield , and surrounded with the word Britannia ...
... wall , nearly seventy miles in length , to be built from the Solway Firth to the Tyne . On some of the coins struck to commemorate his visit appears a seated figure armed with a spear and shield , and surrounded with the word Britannia ...
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... wall which we know to have been built , by command of the king , at a very much later period . To imagine that Dover was altogether left unprotected by the Romans would be absurd , but the earthworks and fortresses on the eastern ...
... wall which we know to have been built , by command of the king , at a very much later period . To imagine that Dover was altogether left unprotected by the Romans would be absurd , but the earthworks and fortresses on the eastern ...
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... wall . The earliest notice of a " wall tax " for Dover occurs shortly after this disaster , and it seems highly probable that the first walls were built about this time as a protection against any future raids . In 1297 the king sailed ...
... wall . The earliest notice of a " wall tax " for Dover occurs shortly after this disaster , and it seems highly probable that the first walls were built about this time as a protection against any future raids . In 1297 the king sailed ...
Page 62
... wall has yet been discovered . Moreover , gates with such names do not appear in any of the older documents connected with Dover . The direction of the old walls may be traced with a fair amount of exactitude , especially as portions of ...
... wall has yet been discovered . Moreover , gates with such names do not appear in any of the older documents connected with Dover . The direction of the old walls may be traced with a fair amount of exactitude , especially as portions of ...
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