Isle of Thanet
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Photo: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Public domain.
- Type: Locality
- Description: former island in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Thanet”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Minster railway station and Minster in Thanet Priory.
Minster railway station
Railway station
Photo: david mills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Minster railway station serves the village of Minster in Kent and surrounding villages. It is next to a junction between Canterbury West, Ramsgate and Sandwich.
Minster in Thanet Priory
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Minster Abbey is the name of two abbeys in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, England. The first was a 7th-century foundation which lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Minster-in-Thanet and Ebbsfleet.
Minster-in-Thanet
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Minster, also known as Minster-in-Thanet, is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is the site of Minster in Thanet Priory.
Ebbsfleet
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ebbsfleet is a hamlet near Ramsgate, Kent, at the head of Pegwell Bay. Historically it was a peninsula on the southern coast of the Isle of Thanet, marking the eastern end of the Wantsum Channel that separated Thanet from the Kentish mainland.
Richborough
Village
Photo: Val Vannet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Richborough is a settlement north of Sandwich on the east coast of the county of Kent, England. Richborough lies close to the Isle of Thanet. The population of the settlement is included in the civil parish of Ash. Richborough is situated 2 miles south of Isle of Thanet.
Isle of Thanet
- Categories: peninsula and former island
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.32434° or 51° 19′ 28″ northLongitude
1.33144° or 1° 19′ 53″ eastElevation
138 feet (42 metres)Open location code
9F3388FJ+PHOpenStreetMap ID
node 2095244315OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Isle of Thanet” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Thanet uhartea”
- Breton: “Enez Thanet”
- Bulgarian: “Танет”
- Catalan: “illa de Thanet”
- Catalan: “Illa de Thanet”
- Chinese: “萨尼特”
- Chinese: “薩尼特島”
- Czech: “Isle of Thanet”
- Czech: “Thanet”
- Dutch: “Isle of Thanet”
- Esperanto: “Thanet”
- French: “île de Thanet”
- French: “Île de Thanet”
- German: “Isle of Thanet”
- Hebrew: “אייל אוף ת’אנט”
- Hungarian: “Thanet-sziget”
- Irish: “Oileán Thanet”
- Italian: “isola di Thanet”
- Italian: “Isola di Thanet”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Isle of Thanet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isle of Thanet”
- Norwegian: “Isle of Thanet”
- Russian: “Танет (полуостров)”
- Sicilian: “Ìsula di Thanet”
- Slovenian: “Isle of Thanet”
- Swedish: “Isle of Thanet”
- Welsh: “Ynys Thanet”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Minster Marshes and Way.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Clapper Hill and Minster Stream (Drain).
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Isle of Thanet”. Photo: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Public domain.