Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was combined from 1267 with the office of Constable of Dover Castle. However, from 1708 Walmer Castle at Deal was to be preferred as the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. The Lord Warden also holds the office of Admiral of the Cinque Ports with a maritime jurisdiction extending to the middle of the English Channel, from Redcliffe near Seaford, in Sussex to the shore underneath the Naze Tower, encompassing Brightlingsea in Essex, the only Cinque Port north of the Thames. In earlier centuries the northern limit was taken as the Shoe Beacon in Essex. The
Cinque Ports Light Railway Cinque Ports Light Railway The Cinque Ports Light Railway was a scheme to build an electric tramway from Ramsgate to Hastings via Dover. In the 1880s the South Eastern Railway appointed Sir Alexander Rose Stenning, a commercial architect who later became president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, to examine various development opportunities for the railway. These included proposals for the Cinque Port's Light Railway. It is likely that, had it been built, the gauge would have been 3 ft 6 in, allowing it to run through the Isle of Thanet Electric Tramways and Dover Corporation Tramways. In 1871,