First given earthworks during the American Civil War, the high ground west of Dover, now called Dover Western Heights, was properly fortified in 1804 when Lieutenant-Colonel William Twiss built the Citadel at the western end, North Centre Bastion to the north, and Drop Redoubt overlooking the town, with the unique triple spiral staircase, the Grand Shaft, linking barracks on the hill to the town below.
Much of the site is open as a country park, though the Grand Shaft is only open occasionally, and the Citadel is now a Young Offenders Institution and so is off limits.
External links
Western Heights Today (http://www.western-heights.com)
Dover is a major channel port in the English county of Kent.
Dover is represented in Parliament by the Labour MP Gwyn Prosser.
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.
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.
The town is the administrative centre of the Dover district.
In 1216, Dover was attacked by the French and successfully defended by Hubert de Burgh.
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