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Visit Blériot Memorial, Dover, England
On Sunday 25th July 1909, Frenchman Louis Blériot made the first crossing of the English Channel by air. At 4.41am he took off from a beach west of Calais and landed on this Dover hilltop some 31 minutes later at 5.12am, having covered a distance of 24 miles.
This memorial was unveiled in 1910 and marks his exact landing point with the full-scale planform of his Blériot XI monoplane marked in granite.
In 2009, to mark the 100th Anniversary of the flight, access to the memorial was greatly improved and the immediately surrounding area now has walkways, seating and information boards. After 112 years, the area around the landing site has grown into pleasant woodland, although it would obviously have been a bare hillside back in 1909.
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