Sitting just eight miles from the lovely white cliffs of Dover, the beautiful town of Deal is yet another example of the gorgeous towns that sit along the incredible English Channel. Deal is a very old town and a mammoth amount of history has occurred in and around this stellar land. Deal is considered to be near the location where the famed Julius Caesar first touched town on English soil and by the 1200s the town was well known for its limb port accessibility. Not long after that Deal became the busiest port in the entire country.
These days Deal is a quiet little seaside resort town with a healthy population of about thirty thousand. Few people in and around the town are aware of the vast and busy history of this location, however, and this is truly a tragedy. Few towns can claim as much fascinating lineage as the town of Deal and, fortunately, there are still a few locations in town where one can get a glimpse of the grandeur that once held the town in sway. There are many old houses and streets that hearken back to those glory days and a visitor to the town can easily see the growth of the town throughout the Tudor, Edwardian, and Georgian days. The Tudor Deal Castle in particular is a shining monument to the fortitude of the Deal of old.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that Deal was once the most formidable seaport town in the area. After all, the coastline of France is visible all throughout Deal and it is incredibly close to the historically significant Goodwin Sands. The proximity to the latter is of particular note because the Goodwin Sands have been both a bounty and a curse to many an English sailor. Over two thousand shipwrecks have occurred in the precarious area and pirates once sailed from all over a world to plunder the ships that didn't sink. On the other hand, the trade that went on in the area helped to build some of England's most glorious cities.
Deal has always had a longstanding relationship with the Royal Marines ever since their inception and the Deal Barracks were one of the first permanent homes for the Marines. The building still stands to this day and it is now the Royal Marine School of Music. Sadly, the school was bombed in 1989 by the IRA during the last throes of The Troubles. Over thirty people were injured or killed during the devastating blast and today there is a memorial commemorating the innocent people who lost their lives that day. At any rate, it is important to remember all the good that the Royal Marines did during their tenure in Deal rather than the cowardly acts that took the lives of the Marines. Deal is one of the first and one of the most important seaside towns in history and nothing can take away that legacy from the town, despite constant attempts to do so.
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