Place:


Ramsgate  Kent

 

In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Ramsgate like this:

Ramsgate, watering-place and seaport, market town and par., and member of the Cinque Port of Sandwich, Kent - par. and Cinque Port, 308 ac., pop. 16,234; town (including also the greater part of St Lawrence Thanet par.), 4 miles SE.

Ramsgate through time

Ramsgate is now part of Thanet district. Click here for graphs and data of how Thanet has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Ramsgate itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Ramsgate, in Thanet and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/575

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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