{"id":125,"date":"2018-03-08T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/?p=125"},"modified":"2018-03-08T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T11:45:04","slug":"dover-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/dover-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"DOVER CASTLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Friday afternoon trip is to DOVER CASTLE, about 40 minutes from Broadstairs by coach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/Dover-Castle\/Kent\">Dover Castle<\/a>, ONLY 40 minutes by road from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitthanet.co.uk\/destinations\/broadstairs\/10538?microSiteId=210\">Broadstairs<\/a>, is a magnificent medieval castle positioned on the famous White Cliffs of Dover, and overlooking the Channel towards France. It was founded in the 11th century and has been described as the &#8220;Key to England&#8221; due to its defensive significance throughout history.\u00a0 It is the largest castle in England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180518_165441Y.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-650 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.hilderstone.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_20180518_165441Y-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As well as the medieval castle, you can also visit a Roman Lighthous<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">e and the fascinating Secret Wartime Tunnels, which were a vital military command centre and underground hospital during World War 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.hilderstone.ac.uk\/collegelife\/socialprogramme.html<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Friday afternoon trip is to DOVER CASTLE, about 40 minutes from Broadstairs by coach. Dover Castle, ONLY 40 minutes by road from Broadstairs, is a magnificent medieval castle positioned on the famous White Cliffs of Dover, and overlooking the Channel towards France. It was founded in the 11th century and has been described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[21,23,26,29,31,32,39,46,47,48,54,59,68,69,82,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hilderstonecollege.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}