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Chapel Lane, DOVER, CT15 6BN

The public footpath follows Droveway Gardens and leads to a complex of paths which end at The Droveway or at Kingsdown Road. St Margaret’s at Cliffe is a coastal village some 3 miles northeast of Dover. The village is the place in Britain that is nearest to the coast of France, 18 miles distant. The area has been settled since Anglo-Saxon times, and the village became a high class resort in the nineteenth century. The area has always been at the front line of cross Channel conflicts.

Part of the front garden and that to the west has been ripped up by an excavator. One can only assume that some sort of new surface is to be laid.

Now that the alterations have been completed to Image, one can see that they were to make a hard-standing for vehicles.

Cliffe Lodge, Chapel Lane, is a late 18th or early 19th century cottage in rendered brick under a slate roof. St Margaret’s at Cliffe is a coastal village some 3 miles northeast of Dover. The village is the place in Britain that is nearest to the coast of France, 18 miles distant. The area has been settled since Anglo-Saxon times, and the village became a high class resort in the nineteenth century. The area has always been at the front line of cross Channel conflicts.

Cliffe Cottage, in Cripps' Lane, is an early 19th century house. Constructed of rendered brick under a slate roof. Listed, for group value, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1347921 St Margaret’s at Cliffe is a coastal village some 3 miles northeast of Dover. The village is the place in Britain that is nearest to the coast of France, 18 miles distant. The area has been settled since Anglo-Saxon times, and the village became a high class resort in the nineteenth century. The area has always been at the front line of cross Channel conflicts.

Planning permission was granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/15/00120 for the “change of use and conversion of existing building into two dwellings, incorporating a dormer to rear catslide, erection of one detached dwelling, terrace of three dwellings and creation of parking (existing extension and outbuildings to be demolished)”. This shows the Image before any construction work had started.

One of several inns at St Margaret's-at-Cliffe, an attractive holiday and retirement village on the downs north-east of Dover. This inn shows an interesting mix of brick, flint and tile-hanging. http://stmargaretspc.co.uk/

Boards have been placed over the windows and door of The Hope Inn while across the entrance to the carpark there are large red and white concrete blocks. Beyond them is Mayfield Cottage at 1 Sea Street, where alterations to this house are talking place; some scaffolding is just visible on the far left of the house. Planning permission has been granted by Dover District Council under application number DOV/11/00590 for the “erection of a rear conservatory and enlargement of rear window (existing conservatory to be demolished)”.

The chartered surveyors Porters http://www.porterssurveyors.com/ have placed a board, over the “for sale” board, bearing the words “all enquiries”. Robin Webster’s Image shows large concrete blocks at the entrance to the carpark and that all the windows, bar one, have been boarded over.