Elsewhere in this blog
, I describe a sequence of cycle rides circumnavigating the South East Coast of England. One of those rides is
from Whitstable around to Dover. Today I revisited a section of one of these rides by riding North from Dover. Here is a map of our ride.
We essentially followed NCN1 (although we made a couple of mistakes, corrected in red on the map). We started from our car parked in North Military Road close to Dover Priory station. Our ride was somewhat leisurely, and we reached Sandwich, some 16 miles away, from where we returned by train to our start. We stopped at the NT White Cliffs cafe for coffee, the Zetland Arms beside the sea at Kingsdown for lunch, and Walmer Castle for cream tea. For once, bucking the bad weather elsewhere across the country, this corner of Kent had blue sky and a strong southerly tailwind to help us on our way.
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| Dover sea front |
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| NCN1 along Dover sea front |
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| The path up to the White Cliffs is strictly a footpath: technically it's no cycling, and it would be difficult to cycle up anyway.) |
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| Some cycle path! |
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| Rewarded by views over Dover Harbour |
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| NCN1 descending to Kingsdown on a quiet lane |
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| Cottages at Kingsdown |
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| Zetland Arms at Kingsdown |
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| Lovely wild flowers grow on the shingle |
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| NCN sign at Walmer |
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| We visited Walmer Castle |
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| Gun platform |
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| The original Wellington Boots (the Iron Duke was Warden of the Cinque Ports; he spent his last summers at Walmer Castle, and died there is 1852) |
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| The Castle has an impressive garden |
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| The excellent cycle path along Deal sea front |
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| Deal pier |
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| Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club |
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| Pill box on Sandwich golf course (actually we were off the route here: we should have stayed on the tarmac road.) |
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