thumb|Part of a late copy of the Tabula Peutingeriana|Peutinger Map, showing Roman roads between Richborough, Dover, Canterbury and Lympne Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, Kent, England.
thumb|Part of a late copy of the Tabula Peutingeriana|Peutinger Map, showing Roman roads between Richborough, Dover, Canterbury and Lympne Dubris, also known as Portus Dubris and Dubrae, was a port in Roman Britain on the site of present-day Dover, Kent, England.
As the closest point to continental Europe and the site of the estuary of the Dour, the site chosen for Dover was ideal for a cross-channel port. The Dour is now covered over for much of its course through the town. In the Roman era, it grew into an important military, mercantile and cross-channel harbour and — with Rutupiae (Richborough Roman fort) — one of the two starting points of the road later known as Watling Street. It was fortified and garrisoned initially by the Classis Britannica, and later by troops based in a Saxon Shore Fort.
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