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3 unusual facts about Walmer


St Saviour's, Walmer

St Saviour's is a church on the seafront of Walmer, Kent, United Kingdom.

It was built in 1848, in the Neo-Gothic architectural style, as a chapel of ease for the town's boatmen (who, in the days of sail, took supplies out to vessels in the Downs) and to take the pressure off Old St Mary's (previously the parish's only church).

Walmer

Famous Lords Warden have included Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Sir Winston Churchill, William Pitt the Younger (whose niece Lady Hester Stanhope first created the gardens), and the Duke of Wellington (of the Battle of Waterloo fame).


Dover Museum

Ground floor — Archaeology gallery — Dover and the Dover District Council area (including Deal and Walmer, which do not yet have their own town museum, only the Deal Maritime Museum) from prehistoric times to 1066, including Roman and Saxon Dover (including the Saxon cemetery from Buckland).

Dover Pencester Road

15A (The Diamond) to Sandown via Dover ferry port, Walmer and Deal or to Canterbury via Buckland, Temple Ewell, Lydden and the A2.

Kirkley

Kirkley has a Non-League football club Kirkley and Pakefield Football Club who play at Walmer Road.

Walmer Road Baptist Church

The Walmer Road Baptist Church, commands a solid appearance, and was designed and built in 1889-1892 in the Gothic Revival style by the architectural firm of Henry Langley and Edmund Burke.


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