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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.The village is west of Ramsgate (which is the post town) and to the north east of Canterbury; it lies just south west of Kent International Airport and just north of the River Stour.
The place of birth of residents was 95.7% United Kingdom, 0.5% Republic of Ireland, 1.2% other Western European countries, and 2.6% elsewhere. Religion was recorded as 77.4% Christian, 0.3% Buddhist, 0% Hindu, 0% Sikh and 0.2% Jewish, 0.4% Muslim. 12.6% were recorded as having no religion, 0.2% had an alternative religion and 8.8% did not state ...
Aldington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.The village centre is eight miles (12 km) south-east of the town of Ashford. As with the village centre, set on a steep escarpment above agricultural Romney Marsh and the upper Stour is Aldington Knoll, which was used as a Roman burial barrow and later beacon, it has a panorama towards the English Channel and of ...
During the 1950s and 1960s, St Mary's Bay was a popular destination for vacationers. 'The Bay' had a number of holiday camps, among them Maddieson's Golden Sands at Dunstall Lane, the School Journey Centre at Jefferstone Lane, and the Rugby Club camp on the opposite (sea) side of the A259 main road between Jefferstone Lane and Taylor's Lane.
Folkestone (/ ˈ f ə ʊ k s t ən / FOHK-stən) is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.The town lies on the southern edge of the North Downs at a valley between two cliffs.
ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. [1]
The ME postcode area, also known as the Rochester postcode area, [2] is a group of 20 postcode districts in South East England, within 11 post towns.These cover north central Kent, including the Medway unitary authority and the borough of Swale, plus parts of the boroughs of Maidstone, Tonbridge and Malling, and Gravesham.
Farningham is situated upon the historic route of the A20, Kent's second major road between the capital and the channel ports.The village itself, with its narrow bridge over the River Darenth, and its narrow streets, was bypassed to the north east in the 1930s.