The Lord of the Manor is a former pub and road junction near

Cliffsend Cliffsend is a village (sometimes written, correctly, as Cliffs End) and civil parish situated almost west of Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom, in the Thanet local government district. Hengist and Horsa landed near here in 410AD, and St Augusti ...

on the

Isle of Thanet The Isle of Thanet () is a peninsula forming the easternmost part of Kent, England. While in the past it was separated from the mainland by the Wantsum Channel, it is no longer an island. Archaeological remains testify to its settlement in anc ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

. Two main roads, the A299 and A256 meet here and connect Thanet to the rest of the country.

History

The pub was on the southeast corner of a crossroads; one carrying the road from

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Ramsgate Ramsgate is a seaside resort, seaside town in the district of Thanet District, 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. In 2011, according to t ...

, the other from

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Margate Margate is a seaside resort, seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England. The town is estimated to be 1.5 miles long, north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay, UK, Palm Bay and Westbrook, Kent, ...

. The

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passes through the junction. It was named after the original manor house at this location, which belonged to the

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. In 1966, several Anglo Saxon burial grounds were discovered near the pub following utility works. The remains were re-interred at the Duckworth Laboratory in

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and the associated objects housed in Ramsgate library. Further excavation took place between 1976 and 1981. In 1981, the site was made a scheduled monument. The junction is now a roundabout between the A299 Thanet Way from

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and the A256 from

Dover Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...

. The two roads share a single dual carriageway to the south of the junction, and then branch off to Ramsgate and Margate respectively. It has become one of the main access points from Thanet towards London. In 2019, the junction was named as one of the 20 most dangerous in Kent. There have been several proposals to redevelop the pub's grounds as a lorry and car park, and a car wash, all of which were refused permission by the local council. A plan to build a

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shop at the junction was refused in 2021. In September 2020, it was announced that the now unused pub would be demolished and the land reused for office and storage space.

References

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