Ramsgate

Ramsgate is an English seaside town on the Isle of Thanet in East Kent. It was one of the great English seaside towns in the 19th century and is a member of the ancient confederation of Cinque ports. Population: 1989 estimate 38,200.

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English - Seaside town - Thanet - Kent - Cinque ports

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Ramsgate as a name has its earliest reference as Hraefn's ate, or cliff gap, later to be rendered 'Ramisgate' or 'Remmesgate' around 1225 and 'Ramesgate' from 1357.

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Ramsgate's main industries are tourism and fishing, and there is some light industry. The town caters extensively for students of EFL, (English as a foreign language) at its colleges. The town has two notable churches. The first building used for worship in the Thanet parish of 'St Lawrence' dedicated to St Lawrence was at St Lawrence-in-Thanet and built in the 12th century to be again rebuilt in the 13th. The most august and distince surviving St Augustine's was designed by Augustus Pugin in 1847 in the neo-Gothic style. Its dedication commemorates Augustine, the first archbishop of Canterbury, who landed at Ramsgate in AD 596 and brought Christianity to Britain.

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Tourism - Fishing - Augustus Pugin - Neo-Gothic - Augustine - Archbishop of Canterbury - Christianity

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