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    The Isle of Thanet (/ˈθænɪt/) is a peninsula forming the easternmost part of Kent, England. While in the past it was separated from the mainland by the...
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    East Thanet is a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet in Kent, represented since 2024 by Polly Billington of the Labour Party. The...
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    a combination of natural silting and artificial land reclamation. An Isle of Thanet Rural District covering the rural parts of the isle had existed from...
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    Earl of the Isle of Thanet, in practice shortened to Earl of Thanet, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1628 for Nicholas Tufton...
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  • Wantsum Channel (category History of Kent)
    Wantsum Channel was a strait separating the Isle of Thanet from the north-eastern extremity of the English county of Kent and connecting the English Channel...
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    on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about 80 miles (130 km) east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs...
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    Birchington-on-Sea (category Thanet)
    of the cliffs to prevent further erosion. The geology of Thanet consists mainly of chalk, deposited when the area was below the sea. Isle of Thanet became...
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  • Thanet may refer to: Isle of Thanet, a former island, now a peninsula, at the most easterly point of Kent, England Thanet District, a local government...
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  • changes proposed for Thanet with East and West constituencies". The Isle Of Thanet News. Retrieved 16 November 2021. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency...
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  • the Hastings Permanent and Isle of Thanet building societies in 1951, becoming for a short time Anglia Hastings and Thanet Building Society. In 1979,...
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    resort of Margate, Kent. The club's first team play in the Isthmian League South East Division. The club was known during the 1980s as Thanet United....
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    "Thanet Parkway railway station building works progress". The Isle of Thanet News. Retrieved 12 March 2022. Bailes, Kathy (5 February 2022). "Thanet Parkway...
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    Ramsgate Hoverport (category Ports and harbours of Kent)
    Bartlett, Alison (30 October 1982). "A nostalgic last journey". Isle of Thanet Gazette. "Merger of British Rail Hovercraft Ltd and Hoverlloyd Ltd to form Hoverspeed...
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    Reculver (category City of Canterbury)
    strategic location at the north-western end of the Wantsum Channel, a sea lane that separated the Isle of Thanet and the Kent mainland until the late Middle...
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  • Water, Derbyshire Sunk Island Isle of Thanet, formerly separated by the Wantsum Channel The Isle, within tight loop of the River Severn, Shropshire The...
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    politician Harold Balfour. He represented the Isle of Thanet in the House of Commons and served as Under-Secretary of State for Air from 1938 to 1944. His son...
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  • England Northdown (album), an album by Psapp Northdown, Kent, formerly in Isle of Thanet Rural District, England Northdown, Tasmania, Australia Down North can...
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    Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (category Royal Marines personnel of World War I)
    Conference. In 1919, he was elected as a Unionist Member of Parliament for the Isle of Thanet, one of the youngest MPs ever. He served until 1929. After 1922...
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  • to send Augustine as a missionary from Rome. Augustine landed on the Isle of Thanet in east Kent in 597. Shortly thereafter, Æthelberht converted to Christianity...
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    separated the Isle of Thanet from mainland Britain to the east (before it silted over in the late Middle Ages), and Yantlet Creek at the Isle of Grain to the...
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    arrived in Britain at Ebbsfleet on the Isle of Thanet. For a time, they served as mercenaries for Vortigern, King of the Britons, but later they turned against...
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    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...
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    Margate is a seaside town in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is located on the north coast of Kent and covers an area of 2 miles (3 kilometres) long...
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    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. The village is west of Ramsgate...
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    River Wantsum (category Rivers of Kent)
    together formed the Wantsum Channel, which separated the Isle of Thanet from the mainland of Kent. Now the River Wantsum is little more than a drainage ditch...
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  • Richard Culmer (category People from Thanet (district))
    1612-1669, who married a "Mrs Bechor" of Haarlem. The will of a clerk called Richard Culmer, of Monkton on the Isle of Thanet, was proved by his son-in-law Nicholas...
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    The Thanet Loop is a circular bus route which operates on the Isle of Thanet peninsula in Kent, England. It is operated by Stagecoach South East. The route...
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    Thanet Earth is a large industrial agriculture and plant factory project consortium on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, England. It is the largest greenhouse...
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  • the leader of the Saxons, on the Isle of Thanet. Arthur's most successful siege, the Battle of Badon, precedes the battle at the Isle of Thanet, which seems...
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    History of the Isle of Thanet (1736) "Our History", Holy Trinity, Broadstairs "St. Mary's Chapel", Historic England Bull, Andy. "Our Lady of Bradstowe...
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