Non-metropolitan district in England

Thanet

Thanet is a local government district in Kent, England.

Every way there

London → Thanet
108 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £11–15
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London, Essex → Thanet
108 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £11–15
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Luton, Luton → Thanet
139 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £17–22
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Thanet, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Thanet has

YScheduled flightsLondon, Essex (STN), 98 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

51.367°, 1.383°

The council is based in Margate and the district also contains the towns of Broadstairs, Ramsgate and Westgate-on-Sea, along with several villages. It takes its name from the Isle of Thanet, a former island which gradually became connected to the mainland between the 12th and 16th centuries.

How locals move

Getting around Thanet the local way

Get inBroadstairs is 2 miles from the channel port of Ramsgate with ferries from Ostend in Belgium (for car passengers/coaches only though - no foot passengers).

From Wikivoyage: Broadstairs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.