A Viking force overwintered on the Isle of Thanet in 850-851 and raided Minster abbey repeatedly in the 850s. The monastery at Minster in Thanet had been one of the earliest and most important English religious houses. The repeated Viking use of Thanet as a base showed the vulnerability of the Kentish coast to sustained Danish pressure.
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