Dover

This article is about the English port town. For other uses see Dover (disambiguation).

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Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent. At the 2001 census, the town of Dover proper had a population of 28,156 inhabitants, while the population of the whole urban area of Dover, as calculated by the Office for National Statistics, was 39,078 inhabitants. (External reference: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=8271&More=Y). The town is the administrative centre of the Dover district.

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It is the closest English port to France and continental Europe being only 21 miles (34 kilometres) from the French port of Calais. The French name of Dover is Douvres, pronounced . It is famous for its white cliffs, which are made of chalk. The cliffs gave Britain its nickname of Albion, meaning "white". The town's name derives from the Brythonic word for water.

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Due to its closeness to continental Europe Dover is one of the busiest cross Channel ports of the United Kingdom, with 18 million passengers passing through every year. Regular ferry and catamaran services operate from Dover to Calais and Dunkerque. A regular service to Boulogne-sur-Mer recommenced in May 2004. Hoverspeed also offers an Ostend service that combines its catamaran route to Calais with a bus to Ostend.

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Dover is represented in Parliament by the Labour MP Gwyn Prosser.

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Maxton was once a rural parish to the west of Dover, and the terminus of the tramway system serving the town until its closure in 1938, and is now a suburb of the town.

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