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Castle
Deal Castle
Artillery fort built by Henry VIII in 1539-40, with six inner and outer bastions, now run by English Heritage.
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Deal: things to do
Places worth your time in Deal
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Things to do in Deal
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Castle
Walmer Castle
Henry VIII artillery fort with four round bastions and gardens, run by English Heritage, south of Deal on the seafront.
Pier
Deal Pier
Opened in 1957, the last fully intact leisure pier in Kent, in the middle of the seafront.
Museum
Timeball Tower
Waterfront tower whose rooftop timeball, set up in 1855, gave Greenwich Mean Time to ships offshore; now a museum.
Museum
Deal Museum
Maritime and local history museum in St George's Road, close to the High Street.
Church
St George's Church
Church of St George in the town centre, close to Deal Museum.
Street
Middle Street
The heart of the old town, lined with Georgian houses; the conservation area here was the first in Kent, in 1968.
Ruins
Sandown Castle
Remains of the northernmost of Henry VIII's three Downs forts, at the end of the seafront.
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- Deal (area photo): Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Deal Castle: JimRussell, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Walmer Castle: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Deal Pier: Jim Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Timeball Tower: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Sandown Castle: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Dover: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Canterbury: Hans Musil, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Whitstable: Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Margate and Broadstairs: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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