English Channel

The English Channel was a body of water that separated Great Britain from France.

In 1875, Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel. The Doctor claimed that he swam with Webb in the Channel. (BFA: Doctor Who and the Pirates)

In 1941, Bernice Summerfield spent time stranded on Nazi-occupied Guernsey, an island in the Channel. (BFBS: Just War (audio story); NA: Just War (novel))

In the 1970s, a prison was established on Fortress Island, located in the Channel. (DW: The Sea Devils) When John Harrison purchased a group of Skullion slaves who had crash landed in Central Asia, they were brought across Europe and then across the Channel to him. (SJA: The Man Who Never Was)

Reg Arwell believed to have died while flying over the English Channel. But it was turned out his wife had saved him while flying through the time vortex with The Doctor. (DW: The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe)