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|shire_county = [[Kent]]
|region = South East England
|constituency_westminster = [[Dover and Deal (UK Parliament constituency)|Dover & Deal]]
|post_town = DEAL
|postcode_district = CT14
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|london_distance = 83.9mi
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'''Deal''' is a coastal town in [[Kent]], England, which lies where the [[North Sea]] and the [[English Channel]] meet, {{convert|8|mi}} north-east of [[Dover, England|Dover]] and {{convert|8|mi}} south of [[Ramsgate]].
Deal became a 'limb port' of the [[Cinque Ports]] in 1278 and grew into the busiest [[port]] in England; today it is a [[seaside resort]], its quaint streets and houses a reminder of its history along with many ancient buildings and monuments. In 1968, Middle Street was the first [[Conservation Area (United Kingdom)|conservation area]] in Kent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dover.gov.uk/conservation/conservation_areas/deal_middle_street.aspx|title=Deal Middle Street|work=dover.gov.uk|access-date=24 September 2015|archive-date=29 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829194750/http://www.dover.gov.uk/conservation/conservation_areas/deal_middle_street.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> The coast of France is approximately {{convert|25|mi}} from the town and is visible on clear days. The [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]]-era [[Deal Castle]], commissioned by then-[[monarchy of the United Kingdom|King]], [[Henry VIII]], has a [[rose]] floor plan.
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===Radio===
Deal is served by the award winning internet radio station DR (Deal Radio),<ref>[https://dealradio.co.uk Deal Radio]</ref> The UK's leading StreetSide radio station with 24/7 content - news, music, interviews. Broadcasting from studios at HQ 69A High Street. You can visit the studio and contribute live to the regular community shows - Midday Meet Up and the Saturday Drop In
DCR 104.9FM (Dover Community Radio) <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dcrfm.co.uk/|title=DCR FM|website=dcrfm.co.uk}}</ref> the community radio station for Deal, Dover and Sandwich started broadcasting on 104.9FM in May 2022. The online station of the same name launched on 30 July 2011 offering local programmes, music and news for Dover and district. Prior to this DCR was a podcasting service founded in 2010. DCR was awarded a community radio licence by OFCOM on 12 May 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/195272/may-2020-community-radio-licence-awards.pdf |title=Six community radio licence awards |date=12 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119100106/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/195272/may-2020-community-radio-licence-awards.pdf |archive-date=2022-01-19 |url-status=live}}</ref>▼
▲DCR 104.9FM (Dover Community Radio) <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dcrfm.co.uk/|title=DCR FM|website=dcrfm.co.uk}}</ref> the community radio station for Deal, Dover and Sandwich started broadcasting on 104.9FM in May 2022. The online station of the same name launched on 30 July 2011 offering local programmes, music and news for Dover and district. Prior to this DCR was a podcasting service founded in 2010. DCR was awarded a community radio licence by OFCOM on 12 May 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/195272/may-2020-community-radio-licence-awards.pdf |title=Six community radio licence awards |date=12 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119100106/https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0026/195272/may-2020-community-radio-licence-awards.pdf |archive-date=2022-01-19 |url-status=live}}</ref>
===Television===
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==Sport and leisure==
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Deal has a [[non-League football]] club [[Deal Town F.C.|Deal Town]], which plays at The Charles Sports Ground.
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==Twin towns==
==Notable people==
* [[William Boys (surgeon)|William Boys]] (1735–1803), an English surgeon and topographer.<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Boys, William |volume= 06 |last= Humphreys |first= Jennett |author-link= Jennett Humphreys |pages=132-133 |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[John Harvey (Royal Navy officer, born 1772)|Admiral Sir John Harvey]]
* [[Antonio Blitz]] (1810 in Deal – 1877),
* [[John Hulke]] (1830 in Deal – 1895),<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Hulke,_John_Whitaker |volume= 13 |short=x}}</ref> surgeon, geologist and fossil collector, and son of a physician in Deal
* [[Freddy McConnell]], Guardian multimedia journalist and trans man<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/amp/transgender-dad-loses-court-case-212955/|title=Transgender dad and Seahorse star Freddy McConnell loses court case|last=Perkins|first=Eleanor|work=Kent Online|date=2019-09-25|access-date=2019-09-28|archive-date=28 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928213925/https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/amp/transgender-dad-loses-court-case-212955/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Edward Millen]] (1860 in Deal – 1923),<ref>[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/millen-edward-davis-7577 Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10 1986] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003224826/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/millen-edward-davis-7577 |date=3 October 2017 }} retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> Australian journalist and politician, the first [[Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Australia)|Minister for Repatriation]]
* [[Alan Patterson (athlete)|Alan Patterson]] (1886 in Deal – 1916), track and field athlete.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418042106/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/alan-patterson-2.html Sports Reference LLC] retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> He competed at the [[1908 Summer Olympics]] in London and at the [[1912 Summer Olympics]] in Stockholm.
* [[John Pinder (RAF officer)|Captain John William Pinder]]
* [[Carole White]] (born in Deal 1950),<ref>[http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8289185/Carole-White-the-outspoken-model-agent.html Fashion.telegraph.co.uk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404211319/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG8289185/Carole-White-the-outspoken-model-agent.html |date=4 April 2017 }} retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> former model and co-founder of Premier Model Management, but raised in Ghana
* [[James Arbuthnot|James Arbuthnot, Baron Arbuthnot of Edrom]]
* [[Linda Ann Martin]] (born 1954 in Deal), fencer.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418040656/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/linda-ann-martin-1.html Sports Reference LLC] retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980]], [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984]] and [[1988 Summer Olympics]].
* [[Richard Ovenden]] (born 25 March 1964), librarian, author, and current [[Bodley's Librarian]] in [[the University of Oxford]]
* [[Stephen Chidwick]] (born 10 May 1989), professional poker player.
===Actors===
* [[Charles Hawtrey (actor born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] (1914–1988),<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001889/ IMDb website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803050926/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001889/ |date=3 August 2018 }} retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> comedy actor and musician. He moved to Deal in 1968 and lived at 117 Middle St.
* [[Norman Wisdom|Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom]]
* [[Bruce Montague]] (born 1939 in Deal),<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598757/ IMDb website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216021406/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598757/ |date=16 February 2017 }} retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> actor, best known for his role as Leonard Dunn in the television sitcom ''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]''
* [[Richard Cant]] (born in Dartford in 1964),<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134458/ IMDb website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226012206/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134458/ |date=26 December 2018 }} retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> actor, best known for his roles in the ITV1 television series ''[[Midsomer Murders]]''
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* [[Elizabeth Carter]] (1717 in Deal – 1806),<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Carter, Elizabeth |volume= 05 |short=x}}</ref> poet, classicist, writer and translator, and a member of the Bluestocking Circle around Elizabeth Montagu
* [[Stephen Phillips]] (1864–1915 in Deal), poet and dramatist. Popular early in his career, he lodged and died in Deal.<ref name="auto">[https://highstreetdeal.co.uk/blue-plaque-walks-in-deal/ Blue Plaque Walks in Deal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003225814/https://highstreetdeal.co.uk/blue-plaque-walks-in-deal/ |date=3 October 2017 }} retrieved 3 October 2017</ref>
* [[A. M. Irvine]] (1866-1950), author, lived much of her adult life in Deal and died there.<ref name=Oxford>Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell, and David Trotter (eds). [https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198117605.001.0001/acref-9780198117605-e-632?rskey=HnUJe1&result=1 A. M. Irvine], The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction, Oxford University Press, 1997 Print {{ISBN|9780198117605}}, Current Online Version: 2005 e{{ISBN|9780191727382}} {{subscription}}</ref>
* [[Nathaniel Gubbins]] (1893–1976), journalist and humourist,<ref name="auto"/> known as ''The War's Leading Humorist''. He lived at 109 Beach Street from 1947 to 195.
* [[Elizabeth Bartlett (British poet)|Elizabeth Bartlett]] (1924 in Deal – 2008),<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/29/poetry.mentalhealth Guardian Obituary Tuesday 29 July 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003175123/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/29/poetry.mentalhealth |date=3 October 2017 }} retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> poet
* [[William Horwood (novelist)|William Horwood]] (born 1944), novelist.<ref>[http://www.williamhorwood.co.uk/about/ William Horwood website 2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003230837/http://www.williamhorwood.co.uk/about/ |date=3 October 2017 }} retrieved 3 October 2017</ref> He grew up on the East Kent coast, primarily in Deal.
* [[Sean Gabb]] (born 1960 in Chatham),<ref>[http://www.seangabb.co.uk/ seangabb.co.uk, Own website] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/
* [[Charlie Connelly]] (born 1970 in London), author and broadcaster
* [[Alexander James Kent]] (born 1977 in Dover),{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} cartographer, geographer and academic, and co-author of ''The Red Atlas''. President of the [[British Cartographic Society]] from 2015 to 2017 and lives in Deal.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
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