The district also covers the towns of Deal, Sandwich and Walmer as well as the surrounding rural areas.

The council's main offices are at the White Cliffs Business park in the parish of Whitfield, to the north of the town of Dover itself.

The southern part of the latter is the point where the North Downs meets the sea, at the White Cliffs of Dover.

It is here, on the sand-dunes, that the Royal St George's Golf Club, founded in 1887, and of international repute, is situated.

In the district are industrial remains of the erstwhile Kent coalfield, situated around Tilmanstone and Betteshanger.

[20] Deal Timeball is a Victorian maritime Greenwich Mean Time signal located on the roof of a waterfront four-storey tower.