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Folkestone
Port and resort on the southeast coast of Kent, England, 10 km/6 mi southwest of Dover; population (2001) 45,300. There are passenger ferry and SeaCat (high-speed catamaran) connections with Boulogne, France, and to the northwest of the town is the British terminal of Eurotunnel, which offers a high-speed train link through the Channel Tunnel to Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium, for private and haulage traffic.
The physician William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of blood, was born here in 1578; his statue stands on the cliff top.
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