Minster-in-Thanet
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,570 residents
- Description: village in Thanet, Kent, UK
- Also known as: “Minster” and “Minster, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Minster in Thanet Priory and Minster railway station.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Isle of Thanet and Monkton.
Isle of Thanet
Locality
Photo: Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Public domain.
Kent is the most south-easterly county of England. It is popularly known as the "Garden of England" and its coastal areas are popular with visitors.
Monkton
Village
Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monkton is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. The village is located at the south-west edge of the Isle of Thanet and is situated mainly along the B2047 road, leading off the A253 road between Canterbury and Ramsgate. Monkton is situated 1½ miles west of Minster-in-Thanet.
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. Ebbsfleet is situated 2 miles southeast of Minster-in-Thanet.
Minster-in-Thanet
- Category: locality
- Location: Minster, Thanet District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.33425° or 51° 20′ 3″ northLongitude
1.31598° or 1° 18′ 58″ eastPopulation
3,570Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)Open location code
9F3388M8+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 27300411OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2642435Wikidata ID
Q9033431
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Minster-in-Thanet” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Minster-in-Thanet”
- Catalan: “Minster”
- Cebuano: “Minster”
- Chinese: “薩內特”
- Czech: “Minster”
- Dutch: “Minster-in-Thanet”
- Dutch: “Minster”
- French: “Minster-in-Thanet”
- French: “Minster”
- Irish: “Minster”
- Italian: “Minster-in-Thanet”
- Italian: “Minster”
- Japanese: “ミンスター＝イン＝サネット”
- Persian: “مینستر آن ثنت”
- Polish: “Minster-in-Thanet”
- Polish: “Minster”
- Spanish: “Minster-in-Thanet”
- Spanish: “Minster”
- Swedish: “Minster-in-Thanet”
- Swedish: “Minster”
- Turkish: “Minster-in-Thanet”
- Welsh: “Minster-in-Thanet”
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