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The Isle of Thanet seen from the north The Isle of Thanet seen from the south. The Isle of Thanet (/ ˈ θ æ n ɪ t /) is a peninsula forming the easternmost part of Kent, England. While in the past it was separated from the mainland by the 600-metre-wide (2,000 ft) Wantsum Channel, [1] it is no longer an island.
It takes its name from the Isle of Thanet, a former island which gradually became connected to the mainland between the 12th and 16th centuries. The district lies on the north-eastern tip of Kent, bordering the City of Canterbury to the west and Dover District to the south. It is predominantly coastal, with north, east and southeast-facing ...
Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place — for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. During the Middle Ages, these were often shortened to just Colonia. One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne (from French, German Köln).
Isle of Dogs; Isle of Elmley (part of Sheppey) Isle of Ely; Isle of Grain; Isle of Harty (part of Sheppey) Isle of Oxney; Isle of Portland; Isle of Purbeck; Kelham Island; Ramsey Island; Spike Island; Stones Island, Carsington Water, Derbyshire; Sunk Island; Isle of Thanet, formerly separated by the Wantsum Channel; The Isle, within tight loop ...
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 district containing the island; Thanet College, former name of East Kent College; Thanet Canal, a short branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal
Eilert Ekwall, a 20th-century authority on English place-names, wrote that the name "Wantsum" derives from an Old English word "wandsum", meaning "winding". [1] [ Fn 1] Bede, writing in or before 731, mentioned the Wantsum (Vantsumu) in describing the Isle of Thanet, but he also recorded an alternative name: he described the church at Reculver as being juxta ostium aquilonale fluminis Genladae ...
Isle of Thanet was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885, until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election. It was located on the Isle of Thanet, in Kent.
Bede wrote in his Ecclesiastical History: "On the east of Kent is the large Isle of Thanet containing, according to the English way of reckoning, 600 families, divided from the other land by the river Wantsum, which is about three furlongs over, and fordable only in two places, for both ends of it run into the sea. In this island landed the ...