Sarre, Kent

Sarre
Houses on Old Road, Sarre
Sarre Location within Kent
Population	222 (2011)
OS grid reference	TR255645
Civil parish	Sarre
District	Thanet
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Birchington
Postcode district	CT7
Dialling code	01843
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	North Thanet
List of places UK England Kent 51°20′21″N 1°14′21″E / 51.3392°N 1.2391°E / 51.3392; 1.2391

Sarre is a village and civil parish in Thanet District in Kent, England. The village is a part of St. Nicholas-at-Wade ecclesiastical parish, after having lost the local church of St. Giles in Elizabethan times; the ecclesiastical parishes were subsequently combined.^[1] In its own right Sarre is an Ancient Parish.^[2][3] It has a population of 130,^[4] increasing to 222 at the 2011 Census.^[5]

Sarre is located at the point where the old 'Island Road' from Margate to Canterbury crossed the Wantsum Channel initially by a ferry and from the late Middle Ages by a bridge. The route of this bridge is followed by a short section of the modern A28 and is still marked on some maps as Sarre Wall.