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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...
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    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...
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  • Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet (also known as Eadburh and Bugga) was a princess of Wessex, and abbess of Minster-in-Thanet. She is regarded as a saint...
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    Minster is an honorific title given to particular churches in England, most notably York Minster in Yorkshire, Westminster Abbey in London and Southwell...
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    8th-century Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent. She was declared a saint after her death, and, in 1030, her remains were moved to Canterbury...
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  • Minster, Swale (or Minster-in-Sheppey), a town in Swale, Kent Minster-on-Sea, the civil parish Minster-in-Thanet, a village in Thanet, Kent Minster,...
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  • Cwenthryth (category People from Minster-in-Thanet)
    In 811 she witnessed a charter of her father as filia regis (king's daughter). She was abbess of Winchcombe Minster, Reculver and Minster in Thanet,...
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    landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury (the first was founded...
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    Domne Eafe (category People from Minster-in-Thanet)
    of Kent and the foundress of the double monastery of Minster in Thanet Priory at Minster-in-Thanet during the reign of her cousin King Ecgberht of Kent...
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  • Kentish Royal Legend (category Chronicles about England in Latin)
    generations; the establishment of various monasteries, most notably Minster-in-Thanet; and the lives of a number of Anglo-Saxon saints and the subsequent...
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  • Elder, abbess Saint Æbbe of Oxford, saint venerated in Oxfordshire Saint Æbbe of Minster-in-Thanet or Domne Eafe, 7th century abbess Saint Æbbe the Younger...
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  • of the dynasty were buried at the cathedral in Winchester, first in the Old Minster and then the New Minster. The remains of many of these rulers and others...
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    of Thanet, marking the eastern end of the Wantsum Channel that separated Thanet from the Kentish mainland. It is in the civil parish of Minster-in-Thanet...
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  • Minster-in-Thanet); grant of 10 hides (manentes) in Sturry, Kent. Latin". "c. A.D. 690. Oswine, king of Kent, to Æbba, abbess (of Minster-in-Thanet);...
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    school, use Minster-in-Sheppey, in order to distinguish it from Minster-in-Thanet, also in the county of Kent. Both places are listed in the Ordnance...
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  • ditches. Efforts made by the monks of Minster-in-Thanet to manage the Wantsum in the Middle Ages are reflected in two names for parts of the Channel and...
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    Manston Airport (category Airports in Kent)
    closed since 2014. Located in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet and partly adjacent to the village of Manston in the Thanet district of Kent, England, 11 NM...
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  • the nearest phone had been disconnected and was buried in Minster Cemetery at Minster-in-Thanet. His gravestone is engraved with the line "Love's not Time's...
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    Lydd Minster Lyminge Abbey Maidstone Carmelite Friary Minster in Sheppey Priory Minster in Thanet Priory, earlier site (purported) Minster in Thanet Priory...
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    political figure, especially in her son's reign. Edward is first recorded as a witness to the Winchester New Minster Charter in 966. Ælfthryth attested as...
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    renamed Minster Junction on 1 January 1852, then Minster Junction (Thanet) on 1 August 1901, Minster (Thanet) on 7 May 1945, and reverting to Minster around...
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  • entry under 682 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that "Centwine drove the Britons to the sea". This is the only event recorded in his reign. The Carmina...
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    Trumpington bed burial (category Archaeological discoveries in the United Kingdom)
    royal women include Barking Abbey, Essex for Saint Ethelburga and Minster in Thanet Priory, Kent founded for Saint Ermenburga. A small number of bed burials...
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    Edward Carson (category People from Minster-in-Thanet)
    in the presence of more than 40,000 people. Lord Carson lived at Cleve Court, a Queen Anne house near Minster in the Isle of Thanet, Kent, bought in 1921...
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  • and characters with the name) Saint Mildrith, 8th-century Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet Milred (died 774), Anglo-Saxon prelate, Bishop of Worcester Henry...
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    2009. Stow Minster contains a stained glass window that portrays the legend. "Stow Minster: History". Stow-in-Lindsey, Lincs., UK: Stow Minster. Archived...
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    Kelly, S. E. 1995. Charters of St. Augustine's Abbey Canterbury and Minster-in-Thanet. Anglo-Saxon Charters 4. King, J. E. 1930. Baedae Opera Historica...
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  • an important element in the legend of Saint Mildrith, because the monastery of Minster in Thanet is said to have been founded in atonement for the crime...
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    Kingdom of Kent (category States and territories established in the 450s)
    active in West Kent, and there are records attesting that Æthelred arbitrated on the income of the Christian communities at Minster-in-Thanet and Reculver...
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    Bible. It was produced in southern England, perhaps in St. Augustine's Abbey or Christ Church, Canterbury or Minster-in-Thanet, and is the earliest illuminated...
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