Minster, also known as Minster-in-Thanet, is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England.

Again in about 763 AD Eadberht II, king of Kent, granted the remission of toll on two ships at Sarre and on a third at Fordwich.

[11] The parish church of St Mary-the-Virgin is largely Norman but with significant traces of earlier work, the problems of which are unresolved.

The chancel is Early English with later flying buttresses intended to halt the very obvious spread of the upper walls.

The tower has a curious turret at its southeast corner that is locally referred to as a Saxon watch tower but is built at least partly from Caen stone; it may be that it dates from the time of the conquest but is built in an antique style sometimes called Saxo-Norman.

The 1876 Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series map[12] shows a Methodist (Wesleyan) chapel in St Mildred's Road; on the 1898 OS map[13] it has become Roman Catholic and been renamed "St Mildred's R.C.

It later closed but as permission to demolish it and build houses on the site was denied in 2010,[14] it was converted into a private residence.

It was settled in 1937 by refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and continues to flourish as an international community.

[17] Generally a flat landscape, the area's main features include marshes, farms and rivers.