This summer, as we set off for France on a P&O ferry, I looked back at the coastline and saw Dover Castle perched on top of the famous White Cliffs, and once again thought to myself: ‘I’d love to go there’.

I have lived in the county all my life and never been to the castle, described by English Heritage as “the most iconic of all English fortresses”. So I made a promise to myself that I’d take the kids soon. And it was on a wet and very windy day during half-term that we found ourselves at this famous Kent landmark and I was looking forward to spending the day there.

While the castle’s iconic outline, similar to how a child might draw a castle if you asked them to, can be seen across the Channel - we found out that it was mostly what you can’t see below ground that makes this Kent attra

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