6th August, 2020 | Streets of Dover
Sourced by kind permission of Derek Leach from his book ‘Streets of Dover’ Salisbury Road runs from Godwyne Road to Frith Road. Lord Salisbury was Prime Minister three times between 1885 and 1902 and was installed as Lord Warden in 1896. When Dover Castle...
6th August, 2020 | Streets of Dover
Sourced by kind permission of Derek Leach from his book ‘Streets of Dover’ Napier Road ran from Auckland Crescent to Hobart Crescen. The obvious, but incorrect, reason for this name is that David Napier was the owner of ‘Rob Roy,’ the first steam vessel on...
6th August, 2020 | Streets of Dover
Sourced by kind permission of Derek Leach from his book ‘Streets of Dover’ Danes Court is off Old Charlton Road. Castell Dane was a medieval ward of Dover but ‘the Danes’ were not in it! The name may come from ‘Dens’, a Saxon word for a clearing in the...
