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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.
The Isle of Thanet is the major part of the district. This was formerly an island separated from the mainland by the Wantsum Channel.The channel gradually closed between the 12th and 16th centuries through a combination of natural silting and artificial land reclamation.
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
Map of north-east Kent, showing Shuart, St Nicholas-at-Wade, Reculver and Canterbury All Saints' Church, Shuart (/ ˈ ʃ oʊ ɑː t /), in the north-west of the Isle of Thanet, Kent, in the south-east of England, was established in the Anglo-Saxon period as a chapel of ease for the parish of St Mary's Church, Reculver, which was centred on the north-eastern corner of mainland Kent, adjacent to ...
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The North Sea flood of 1953 led to the flooding of the land where the Wantsum Channel formerly ran, and briefly made the Isle of Thanet an island again. [8] The Wantsum Channel area features in four recreational walking routes, these being the Saxon Shore Way, the Stour Valley Walk, the Wantsum Walk and the Way of St Augustine.
The incident happened on a cycle track near Acorn Rugby Club on Thanet Road, Acomb, between 17:30-18:00 GMT on 27 January, North Yorkshire Police said.
The Thanet Formation is the oldest of these and occupies an area from the coast near Sandwich east through Canterbury to Sittingbourne, Rochester and, intermittently, to Dartford. North of this outcrop, and stratigraphically above it, is a thinner band of pebbly, shelly sands and clays ascribed to the Lambeth Group .