Ebbsfleet, Thanet

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Ebbsfleet
Farmland at Ebbsfleet, with Richborough Power Station in the distance (prior to the demolition of the cooling towers in 2012)
Ebbsfleet Location within Kent
OS grid reference	TR333631
Civil parish	Minster
District	Thanet
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	RAMSGATE
Postcode district	CT12
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Herne Bay and Sandwich
List of places UK England Kent 51°18′54″N 1°21′00″E / 51.315°N 1.350°E / 51.315; 1.350

Ebbsfleet is a hamlet near Ramsgate, Kent, at the head of Pegwell Bay. Historically it was a peninsula on the southern coast of the Isle of Thanet, marking the eastern end of the Wantsum Channel that separated Thanet from the Kentish mainland. It is in the civil parish of Minster-in-Thanet.

Pegwell Bay is a natural harbour on the part of the coast nearest to the Continent, and consequently, Ebbsfleet was the focus of three important arrivals in English history: Julius Caesar’s first invasion of England in 54 BC, then Hengist and Horsa in 449 AD, said to have led the Anglo-Saxons in their conquest of Britain; and lastly Augustine of Canterbury in 597 AD, who converted much of England to Christianity.

Ebbsfleet is the titular see of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet, an episcopal visitor for the Province of Canterbury.