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The port of Richborough was a secret World War I installation which was used to ferry troops and supplies to the trenches. After the war it silted up and became disused. It was revived in World War II and part of the Mulberry Harbour installation, used in the Normandy landings, was built there. The port has once again become disused but industry (notably pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's) has taken over the area.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The nearest the boats were allowed along the river whilst it was closed awaiting the demolition of the towers.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>People descending on the nearest spot to watch the demolition of the Richborough towers.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The long distance path leads beside the river, from Plucks Gutter towards Sandwich.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>People awaiting the demolition.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Opened in 1776 the Stonar Cut formed a shortcut across the neck of the Sandwich Loop on the River Stour so that floodwater caused by high rainfall or a high spring tide could take the shortest route to the sea without flooding Sandwich. Its sluice gates were renewed in 1999 and for 175 years the gates were manned fulltime.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The A256 dual carriageway leads from Sandwich towards Cliffs End and onwards to Ramsgate. After this roundabout it is a single carriageway but this is currently changing due to the construction of the East Kent Access Phase 2 (a byway on the A299 around Cliffs End). The road on the right leads to two industrial estates. On the left is the disused Richborough Power Station.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>This is a riverside view of http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/482871
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Nearly finished, the work has been going on for many months to dual this section of the A256, including a new bridge over Stonar Cut.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>After the towers had gone.
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