Ramsgate

Ramsgate
Ramsgate Location in England	Ramsgate Marina
Basic data
status	Town and Civil Parish
surface	9.87 km²
population	40,408 (as of 2011)
Ceremony county	Kent
District	Thanet District
Constituency	South Thanet
Website: www.ramsgatetown.org

Ramsgate is an English port city and has also been a Civil Parish in eastern Kent since 2004 . It belongs to the Thanet district and has 42,632 inhabitants (as of 2017). Besides the fishing industry, tourism is one of the city's main sources of income.

history

Until April 2013 there was a ferry connection with the Belgian city ​​of Ostend . Ferries used to go to Vlissingen ( Netherlands ) and Dunkirk ( France ). From 1969 to 1981 there was also a connection with air-cushion ferries of the type Saunders Roe Nautical 4 of the shipping company Hoverlloyd to Calais in France.

Town twinning

Ramsgate's twin cities are Conflans-Sainte-Honorine , Île-de-France (France), Chimay , Wallonia (Belgium) and Frederikssund , Zealand (Denmark).

Personalities

Born in Ramsgate

• John Marshall (1748–1819), Royal Navy officer
• Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841), illustrator
• Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), philosopher and mathematician
• Edgar Longuet (1879–1950), French doctor and socialist
• Peter Terry (1926–2017), Air Force General, Governor of Gibraltar
• Brenda Blethyn (born 1946), actress
• Gary Pallister (born 1965), football player
• Kirk Shepherd (* 1986), dart player

Associated with Ramsgate

• John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730–1809), British Governor of the Province of New York and the Colony of Virginia, died in Ramsgate
• Samuel Vince (1749–1821), mathematician, astronomer and clergyman, died in Ramsgate
• Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), prison reformer, died in Ramsgate
• Moses Montefiore (1784–1885), long-time resident of Ramsgate and died there
• Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852), architect and architectural theorist, died in Ramsgate
• Robert Sidney Pratten (1824–1868), flautist, died in Ramsgate
• Spencer Gore (1850–1906), tennis and cricketer, died in Ramsgate
• Charles Allwright (1902–1978), table tennis player, died in Ramsgate
• John Le Mesurier (1912–1983), actor, died in Ramsgate

Web links

Commons : Ramsgate  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ramsgate Town Council

Single receipts

1. ↑ City website - Ramsgate Twinning Association , accessed May 25, 2017
2. ↑ "Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885)" on de.chabad.org

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '  N , 1 ° 25'  E