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4 unusual facts about Minster-in-Thanet


Æthelred and Æthelberht

Their story forms 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.

Domne Eafe

Domne Eafe (or Saint Eormenburg, also Domneva, Domne Éue, Æbbe, Ebba; floruit late 7th century) was, according to the Kentish royal legend, a granddaughter of King Eadbald of Kent and the foundress of the double monastery at Minster-in-Thanet during the reign of her cousin King Ecgberht of Kent.

Millam

A chapel dedicated to the Mercian Saint Mildrith (Mildred), Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet, who is said to have stayed there, exists in Millam, but is privately owned and not easily visited.

Sevenscore

Sevenscore is a hamlet on the B2048 secondary road about one mile (1.6 km) east of Minster-in-Thanet in Kent, England.


Ahmad Hussein Adl

Ahmad Hussein Adl (Tabriz 1989-Tehran 1962) was minster of agriculture for several period in Ahmad Qavam, Ebrahim Hakimi, and Ebrahim Hakimi governments.

Anna Town Hall

Shortly after the village incorporated in 1877, the need for a community government building became apparent, and the present structure was erected on the main road from the canal town of Minster to a rail line operated by a predecessor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Antonio Scandello

It was conducted at the burial of the Elector in the Freiberg minster in 1562.

Battle of Coyotepe Hill

The Battle of Coyotepe Hill was a significant engagement of the United States occupation of Nicaragua in August through November, 1912 during the insurrection staged by Minster of War General Luis Mena against the government of President Adolfo Díaz.

Bill Pitt

In 1996 Pitt joined the Labour Party, disillusoned with the Liberal Democrats and concerned to prevent Jonathan Aitken holding his seat in Thanet South.

Christ II

Cynewulf positively learned the Latin rudiments so many assume that he probably attended the Minster School of York.

Christine Buckley

In 2003 Christine Buckley called on then Minster for Education Noel Dempsey to resign after he proposed that the Commission investigate only sample allegations of abuse instead of the 1800 complaints.

Church of St Bartholomew, Crewkerne

The first Saxon church was founded before the end of the 9th century as a "minster", or main church of a Saxon royal estate that included an area which later became the parishes of Seaborough, Wayford and Misterton.

Church of St John the Evangelist, Milborne Port

The chancellor Regimbald (a survivor from Edward’s reign into William’s) rebuilt his Minster at Milborne Port in “a sumptuous hybrid style.”

Cliftonville

Cliftonville is a coastal area of the town of Margate, situated to the east of the main town, in the Thanet district of Kent, South East England, United Kingdom.

Codicote

In the year 1002 Codicote enters the written records for the first time when King Æthelred the Unready, its owner, sold it by means of a charter for the sum of 150 mancusae, or 900 shillings of pure gold to his 'faithful minster' Ælfhelm.

Coleman Milne

They originally stretched the Ford Zephyr, later moving on to the Ford Granada upon which a number of versions such as the Minster, Dorchester, and Grosvenor were based.

Ebbsfleet, Thanet

There are prehistoric, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement remains on the peninsula around Ebbsfleet Farm, which may have also been the landing stage for the Roman ferry across the channel to Richborough from Thanet.

Eddington, Kent

Eddington is approximately 13 metres above sea level, lying above mainly London Clay with some head Brickearth next to Plenty Brook; however to the east this changes to Tertiary deposits of the Thanet, Oldhaven and Woolwich beds.

Edith Cavell Hospital

The £20m hospital, built to complement services provided elsewhere in the city, was named after the Norfolk-born nurse and humanitarian, Edith Cavell, who received part of her education at Laurel Court in the Minster Precinct.

End of Term

Nicola and Patrick manage to sneak off for a day to visit Wade Minster and look at the carved falcon and then enjoy a cold, dark ride back over the downs, while Patrick recites the Lyke-Wake Dirge.

EUjet

In addition, the airline had been plagued with disruption and protest from people in Thanet, a significant proportion of whom were against any expansion of operations at Kent International Airport.

Frithuwold of Chertsey

The monks of Saint Peter's Minster, Chertsey, revered Frithuwald, whom they considered the founder of their monastery, as a saint.

Halifax Minster

There was a short ceremony in the Minster grounds where the Troops were inspected by the then Mayor of Halifax, Councillor Colin Stout, and the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire Dr Ingrid Roscoe.

Hyde Abbey

In 1109 Henry I ordered the New Minster to be removed to the suburb of Hyde Mead, to the north of the city walls, just outside the gate; when the new abbey church of Hyde was consecrated in 1110, the bodies of Alfred, his wife Ealhswith, and his son Edward the Elder were carried in state through Winchester to be interred once more before the high altar.

Iwerne Minster

In fiction, a pre-Norman conquest Iwerne Minster is imagined (along with neighbouring village Shroton) in Julian Rathbone's novel The Last English King.

Jane Earl

Prior to this she was seconded to the Government Office for the South East creating a practical strategy for the regeneration of Thanet.

Judges Lodgings, York

After his death, the building was bought by Dr. John Dealtry to whom an elegant monument was erected in York Minster.

Lyminster Priory

It was a possible Saxon royal minster of Benedictine nuns and was founded or refounded about 1082AD by Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Sussex, who granted land to St. Peter's Abbey, Almenesches.

Mark Lane, London

Notable sites include the London Underwriting Centre in Minster Court, and the London Corn Exchange at No. 55, as well as a number of other offices and restaurants.

Minster Lovell

The dedication of the Church of England parish church to the Saxon Saint Kenelm and the name "Minster" in the toponym suggest that the village may have had a Saxon minster, possibly associated with a Mercian royal vill.

Nicholas Tufton, 3rd Earl of Thanet

Lord Thanet married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, on 11 April 1664.

Nidec-Shimpo America Corporation

The Minster Machine Company has corporate headquarters and manufacturing plant in Minster, Ohio.

Pyotr Vannovskiy

He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878; held commands of a St. Petersburg Cadet Corps and an Army Corps based in Kiev; served as Minster of War from 1882 until 1898 under the Tsars Alexander III (1881–1894) and Nicholas II (1894–1917) respectively.

Richard Cawthorne

Richard is also first cousin to Australian Labour Minster, and Victorian Shadow Attorney General Martin Pakula.

Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet

Leaving no issue, he was succeeded in turn by his brothers Charles (1770–1832) and Henry Tufton (1775–1849), eleventh and last earl of Thanet.

Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet (30 June 1769 – January 1825) succeeded to his title in April 1786, following the death of his father Sackville Tufton, 8th Earl of Thanet.

Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Baronet

Their son Thomas succeeded to the baronetcy, and his daughter Susan married Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet of Minster.

Southchurch

Southchurch takes its name from a Saxon church which was south of a pre-Norman minster, probably situated at Wakering.

Stow Minster

It is said to have been re-founded and re-endowed in 1054 by Leofric and Godiva encouraged by Bishop Wulfwig as a Minster of Secular Canons with the Bishop at its head.

Susan Goatman

Susan Goatman, born 5 February 1945 in Thanet, Kent, is a retired cricketer who has played three women's Test matches for England and 21 women's one-day internationals including the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup in England, 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup in India and the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.

Thanet

Westwood at the centre of Thanet has seen much major development in recent years with the building of Westwood Cross shopping centre which is the home of national retailers and several restaurant chains including a Travelodge hotel.

Formed over 7000 years ago and separated from the mainland by the Wantsum Channel, it has always borne the brunt of invasions from the Continent.

The Nebuly Coat

The name of the town and minster may be borrowed from Colerne in Wiltshire, formerly spelt Cullerne (among other forms).

Trinity, Indiana

the present-day Minster in West Central,Ohio which also founded other Catholic parishes in neighboring Mercer and Auglaize County, Ohio which is now affectionaltely known by local historians as The Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches.

Welsh devolution referendum, 2011

On 27 October 2007 the then First Minister Rhodri Morgan and the Deputy First Minster Ieuan Wyn Jones appointed Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the recently retired Permanent Representatives from Britain to the United Nations to head the convention.


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