The Wantsum Channel is the name given to a now silted-up watercourse separating the Isle of Thanet and what was the mainland of the English county of Kent, forming a major shipping route from the English Channel to the Thames estuary. The "river" Wantsum is now little more than a drainage ditch lying between Reculver and the River Stour.
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