Join us for a walk in Canterbury, Kent, England. Our walk starts on St Margaret's Street by the Canterbury Tales museum. After crossing Canterbury High Street we walk down Mercery Lane to the beautiful Christchurch Gate, built between 1504 and 1521, and the main entrance to Canterbury Cathedral. This beautiful historic square is the area where the old Buttermarket once stood, built around 1789 and removed in 1888. Here also stands The Canterbury War Memorial. Our walk then takes us down Sun Street and past the historic Sun Hotel. Built in 1503, and visited by author Charles Dickens, the Sun Hotel featured in one of his most famous books 'David Copperfield' and is known internationally as Mr Micawber's 'Little Inn' and one of the city's most recognisable buildings. We then walk down Palace Street to The Crooked House. Built in 1617, this interesting building has etched into the mantle a quotation from Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield. It reads: "A very old house bulging over the road…leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below."
Retracing our steps back to Canterbury High Street, we pass The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge (formerley Canterbury Royal Museum) and Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, a religious hospital dating from 1190 with Gothic archways and a 13th-century mural. Originally created to provide for pilgrims visiting the tomb of St Thomas Becket, for over 800 years the Eastbridge has given shelter and help to pilgrims, soldiers, local societies and schoolchildren. For the last 400 years it has provided and still provides, a permanent home to a number of elderly people. Next we see one of the most photographed buildings in Canterbury, the beautiful Old Weavers House, a half-timbered building on the River Stour, currently home to a restaurant. Canterbury's Historic River Tour company offer regular punt tours along the river, leaving from a small landing at the back of the Old Weavers Restaurant area. Continuing down the High Street, we glimpse views of the historic Westgate before finishing our walk by the Marlowe Theatre with picturesque views of the Great Stour river.
Canterbury is a cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour.
Canterbury was a pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages. Ancient walls, originally built by the Romans, encircle its medieval centre with cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. Canterbury Cathedral, founded 597 A.D., is the headquarters of the Church of England and Anglican Communion, incorporating Gothic and Romanesque elements in its stone carvings and stained-glass windows. The city's cathedral became a major focus of pilgrimage following the 1170 martyrdom of Thomas Becket. A journey of pilgrims to Becket's shrine served as the frame for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century classic The Canterbury Tales.
Canterbury is a popular tourist destination: consistently one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom, the city's economy is heavily reliant upon tourism.
Many historical structures fill the area, including a city wall founded in Roman times and rebuilt in the 14th century, the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and a Norman castle, and the oldest extant school in the world, the King's School. Modern additions include the Marlowe Theatre and the St Lawrence Ground, home of the Kent County Cricket Club. There is also a substantial student population, brought about by the presence of the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University, the University for the Creative Arts, and the Girne American University Canterbury campus. Canterbury remains, however, a small city in terms of geographical size and population, when compared with other British cities.
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