Monkton, Kent

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Monkton

Church of St. Mary Magdelene, Monkton
OS grid referenceTR286649
Civil parish
  • Monkton
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRAMSGATE
Postcode districtCT12
Dialling code01843
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AmbulanceSouth East Coast
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Monkton is an English village on the Canterbury-Ramsgate road. It is at the southwestern edge of the Isle of Thanet, Kent near St Nicholas at Wade and Minster-in-Thanet. The church there is dedicated to Mary Magdalene. Inside the Church is a plaque, commemorating a local soldier, Euncie Rochelle, who died in the Iraq war. Monkton is no longer thought of as a village in its own right and is usually assumed to be part of neighbouring village Minster-in-Thanet.

In the November of 2007, the village exploded, with the remains afterwards being burnt down, with firefighters attempting to put out the blaze, but having so few people and being so far away from any other main towns, the thirty firefighters were unable to reach it in time. However, fortunately, all of Monkton's twenty people were evacuated into safety to nearby Minster. However, Minster was reported to have complained about the overcrowding caused by this and threw out the newcomers, expecting them to go back to the destroyed settlement. Unfortunately for the hamlet, Monkton's largest building, a single storey house, was also lost, and therefore it is thought to take a long time before the people of Monkton are able to resettle in a new place, or whether they will be able to reconstruct some of their old one.[1]

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  1. Gas explosion in workshop blaze; BBC news; [2007,11,26]; retrieved on [2007,11,30];

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