Everything about Ebbsfleet Thanet totally explained
In 1884
Ebbsfleet in
Thanet was selected as the place in the Isle of Thanet where
St. Augustine landed in
597, to convert the
Kingdom of Kent to
Christianity; a standing stone cross to commemorate St. Augustine's landing was erected near the local St. Augustine's Golf Club and just next to the nearby village of Cliffsend. The location of his landing would have been then on the Ebbsfleet peninsula, a spit of land jutting into the former
Wantsum Channel. 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. According to the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle it's also the site of the landings made by the Saxons in the fifth century AD; an entry states that
Hengist and Horsa, on the invitation of
Vortigern, King of the Britons, landed in
449 at
Ypwines fleot, usually assumed to be Ebbsfleet. This landing place is no longer suitable as a landing place due to silting of the surrounding coastline in the intervening centuries.
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