The “Key to England” for over 900 years, Dover Castle – set atop the famous White Cliffs and the greatest medieval fortress in the country – boasts a long and eventful history.
From soon after the Norman Conquest of 1066, it was garrisoned continuously until 1958. At the start of World War II, the existing network of tunnels beneath the castle became a bomb-proof naval headquarters from where, in May 1940, the evacuation of Allied soldiers trapped across the English Channel in Dunkirk was planned.
After lunch in a country pub, we visit Canterbury where the skyline is dominated by its magnificent Cathedral. It dates from 597 when, sent by Pope Gregory the Great, St Augustine arrived in Britain as a missionary and became the country’s first Archbishop. The cathedral is the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
From Canterbury, it takes around 1 hour 45 minutes to reach central London. We will have a photo stop in Greenwich, famous around the world as the home of the Prime Meridian (longitude zero).
