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Ramsgate: tags: [geography]

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a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century. In 2001 it had a population of about 40,000. Ramsgate’s main attraction is its coastline, and its main industries are tourism and fishing. The town has one of the largest marinas on the English south coast, and the Port of Ramsgate provided cross-channel ferries for many years.
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About a year ago, she was taken from school, and an establishment formed for her in London; and last summer she went with the lady who presided over it, to Ramsgate; and thither also went Mr. Wickham,

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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mother: Unable to resist the slide into depravity, you began to dress up in the habit of a nun.

Blackadder: I could not resist the texture of the Hessian underthings.

mother: Ooh, I can understand that! Then, you forced the Bishop of Ramsgate and one Brother Baldrick to do so also.

Blackadder: Oh, may I be cursed for it!

BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Archbishop