Minster-in-Thanet

Minster-in-Thanet is the bit of Thanet that got the history and skipped the seaside, which suits people who want a Ramsgate postcode without Ramsgate's Saturday night. Its original boundary was set by letting a deer run about for a day, and local planning has felt roughly that scientific ever since. There are nuns in the abbey again, and the parish still refuses to put a seventeenth-century Puritan vicar's name on the church's list of incumbents, which tells you how long people here can hold a grudge. Nobody moves to Minster for excitement; they move for the bungalows and the quiet, and the village delivers both with a straight face.