Retirement Properties Spotlight in Ripple

Ripple is a village to the south-west of Deal which is near to where Julius Caesar landed in the 1st century BC. Deal is mentioned as Addela in Domesday and belonged to Archdeacon Ansketel. It has a mainly pebble beach with boats drawn up to the road facing Georgian houses. Henry VIII built the unusual Deal Castle in the shape of a an excavated six petalled flower. Ships have to pass close inshore to avoid the Goodwin Sands, a sad fate that some failed as recorded by Robert Leslie. Deal became one of the Cinque Ports and is now a popular resort with an attractive walk along the cliffs to St Margaret-at-Cliffe.