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Time Ball Tower
📍 CT14 7BP
Photo: Martin Dawes (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
The Deal Timeball is a Victorian maritime Greenwich Mean Time signal located on the roof of a waterfront four-storey tower in the coastal town of Deal, in Kent, England. It was established in 1855 by the Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy in collaboration with Charles V. Walker, superintendent of telegraphs for the South Eastern Railway Company. It was built by the Lambeth firm of engineers Maudslay and Field. The time ball, which, like the Greenwich time ball, fell at 1 pm... — Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Dunkerley's Seafood Restaurant Hotel
✓ Family-run seafront hotel and restaurant since 1987
🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Deal Castle (Good water quality)
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Anchor Cottage
🏖️ a few minutes' walk from Deal Castle (Good water quality)
Deal, Southern England
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£497 per break
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Harold House
🏖️ 0.72 miles from Deal Castle (Good water quality)
Deal, Southern England
Sleeps 9
£721 per break
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