Close to Deal Kent is Walmer, a possible location for Julius Caesar's first arrival in Britain.
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19 Facts About Deal Kent
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Deal Kent became a 'limb port' of the Cinque Ports in 1278 and grew into the busiest port in England; today it is a seaside resort, its quaint streets and houses a reminder of its history along with many ancient buildings and monuments.
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The Tudor-era Deal Kent Castle, commissioned by then-King, Henry VIII, has a rose floor plan.
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Deal Kent is first mentioned as a village in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Addelam.
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Deal Kent developed into a port by the end of the 13th century.
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Deal Kent's supporters were driven off by locals loyal to Henry VII at the Battle of Deal, fought on the beach.
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Deal Kent provided a convenient landing place for passengers for London, potentially saving a long wait for a fair wind to finish a voyage; it allowed outward bound ships to be caught up with and joined.
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Deal Kent was, for example, visited by Lord Nelson and was the first English soil on which James Cook set foot in 1771 on returning from his first voyage to Australia.
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Deal Kent boatmen were internationally famous for their skilled seamanship and bravery in operating their locally-built craft, launching and recovering from the open beach.
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Seafront at Deal Kent has been adorned with three separate piers in the town's history.
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Deal's current pier is the last remaining fully intact leisure pier in Kent and is a Grade II listed building.
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Deal Kent has several museums; most are related to Deal Kent's maritime history.
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The barbarous hated name of Deal Kent shou'd die, Or be a term of infamy;And till that's done, the town will standA just reproach to all the land.
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Deal Kent is the setting for local novelist George Chittenden's smuggling saga, which is set in the late 18th century when the town was a haven for criminal gangs smuggling contraband across the English Channel.
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In Chittenden's debut The Boy Who Led Them a child rises through the ranks to control the biggest smuggling gang on the Deal Kent coast, fighting wars with rival gangs and revenue men at every turn.
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In Chittenden's next book The Boy Who Felt No Pain he takes the reader on a journey back to the dangerous coastal town of Deal Kent, fleshing out the back story of main characters from the first novel whilst raising some interesting new questions.
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Deal Kent has a non-League football club Deal Kent Town, which plays at The Charles Sports Ground.
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Deal Kent had two cinemas up until 1981, but these finally closed in 1984 with the closure of the Cannon Classic in Queen Street and although a small cinema re-appeared in the former Cannon Classic Cinema building, that too closed in 2007.
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Deal Kent has a temperate maritime climate, with comfortable summers and cold winters.
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