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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.
An Isle of Thanet Rural District covering the rural parts of the isle had existed from 1894 until it was abolished in 1935 to form part of Eastry Rural District. [ 2 ] The modern district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 covering the whole area of three former districts and part of a fourth, which were all ...
A general map showing late Roman Kent. The Wantsum Channel lay between the Isle of Thanet and the British mainland, in the north eastern corner of Kent. From prehistory until the Middle Ages, the Wantsum Channel was joined by the River Stour, which entered it at Stourmouth close to its midpoint; it was a two-mile-wide (3 km) strait.
The Isle of Thanet Rural District was a rural district covering part of the Isle of Thanet in the county of Kent, England, from 1894 to 1935. Most of its former area is now part of the Thanet district. When the district was created several ancient parishes were split to create urban and rural parts.
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.
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 . Beside its ruins is St Mildred's Priory , a Benedictine community of women founded in 1937.
St Peter-in-Thanet road sign. St Peter's is an area of Broadstairs, in the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, on the Isle of Thanet, in Kent, England. Historically a village, it was outgrown by the long-dominant settlement of the two, Broadstairs, after 1841.
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; Earl of Thanet, a title in the Peerage of England created in 1628