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Dover Castle

Dover, Kent

Wartime tunnels and a headless drummer boy on the battlements.

Dover Castle has guarded the narrowest crossing to France for nearly a thousand years. Its best-known ghost is a drummer boy said to have been killed and beheaded while carrying money, who is heard drumming on the battlements.

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When
From the 1200s
Where
51.1290, 1.3210
Group
Haunted places

Visiting

Run by English Heritage. Includes the Secret Wartime Tunnels.

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