Cherbourg maritime museum
La Redoubtable, France's first nuclear submarine, with the railway sheds in the background.
Although almost 70 miles away, Cherbourg and its maritime museum are worth a trip. The roads there are good, partly because of the investment spent on them to take ferry passengers away from the port and into France quickly. Unfortunately for the French, P&O stopped using the port soon afterwards and passenger numbers are much lower than the roads were built to cope with.
The maritime museum is housed in the wonderful old railway sheds originally built to allow cross-channel passengers to disembark from their ships and join their waiting trains without having to be exposed to the elements outside.
