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The CT postcode area, also known as the Canterbury postcode area, [2] is a group of 21 postcode districts in South East England, within 13 post towns. These cover much of east Kent , including Canterbury , Dover , Folkestone , Birchington , Broadstairs , Deal , Herne Bay , Hythe , Margate , Ramsgate , Sandwich , Westgate-on-Sea and Whitstable .
Monkton is a village 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 the B2047 road, leading off the A253 road between Canterbury and Ramsgate. The civil parish stretches south to the River Stour and northwards towards Acol. [2]
At the 2001 UK census, the Newington electoral ward had a population of 5,009. The ethnicity was 98.8% white, 0.8% mixed race, 0.1% Asian, 0.2% black and 0.1% other. The place of birth of residents was 97.4% United Kingdom, 0.3% Republic of Ireland, 0.8% other Western European countries, and 1.5% elsewhere.
Manston Court Road refers to Manston Court, [7] the seat of the Manston family who held high office, including Richard de Manston at the time of King John (circa 1200) and William Manston, Sheriff of Kent in 1436; and Spratling Street gets its name from the Sprakling family who lived in Ellington in Ramsgate from 1558 to 1659, at a time when ...
Ramsgate market is held in High Street, King Street and Queen Street every Friday and Saturday. [35] Ramsgate has a LETS scheme (RAMLETS) which was set up in 2014 enabling residents to trade goods and services using the virtual currency RAMs. It is working with the Newington Wellbeing Network to improve the lives of people living in the ...
Ramsgate Sands in 1854, by William Powell Frith. The Christian missionary St Augustine, sent by Pope Gregory the Great, landed near Ramsgate in 597AD. [1] The town is home to the Shrine of St Augustine. What is now Ramsgate Maritime Museum, 1817. Ramsgate was a member of the Confederation of Cinque Ports, under the 'Limb' of Sandwich, Kent. [2]
In 2010, Route 72 was rerouted in Plainville and Bristol onto the new four-lane expressway, a widened Pine Street, and an extended section of Riverside Avenue that crosses the Pequabuck River. The overlap with Route 229 was eliminated, and the old sections along Broad Street, Central St, and East Main Street were decommissioned and control of ...
Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school in Ramsgate, Kent, England, formed as a result of the merger of the boys-only Chatham House Grammar School and girls-only Clarendon House Grammar School in September 2011. Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School is based across three main sites.