New Specialist Guided Tours at Dover Castle!

Dover Castle has played a significant role in protecting England since the middle ages, and now visitors can discover the secrets of this majestic “Key to England” with the launch of a range of fascinating new specialist guided tours.

Use your imagination to picture this mighty fortress as it stood hundreds of years ago with an Invisible Castle Tour, exploring where the towers and walls used to stand when the castle was still young.

Walk the mighty defences, used since medieval times right through to WWII, and enjoy a tour of the eerie Medieval Underground Works to see how the tunnels were adapted by engineers during the Napoleonic war in preparation Dover at Night for French invasion.

Take a tour of the great crossbow Tower of Avranches, find out the secret to its powerful defences and perhaps even uncover the mystery that lies within it.

Also continuing is the atmospheric and popular Secret Wartime Tunnels Tour, which recreates the dramatic conditions endured by hundreds of servicemen and women who lived and worked secretly in the operations’ nerve centre – the very place where Winston Churchill and Vice Admiral Ramsey masterminded the evacuation of Dunkirk. 

The tours will run from 1 November – August 2009 while extensive conservation work to transform the castle’s Great Tower (formerly known at the Keep) is being undertaken. The Great Tower will be open to the public in August 2009 and will provide an exciting and dramatic new dimension to visits to Dover Castle.

We are also pleased to let you know that until August 2009 prices will remain at the current level.

For more information please call 01304 211067 or visit Dover Castle and the Secret Wartime Tunnels