Canterbury
Canterbury
Canterbury is a historic, cathedral city in Kent. Canterbury is a popular tourist destination and boasts many well-known historical sights such as Canterbury Cathedral.
Famously a site of pilgrimages Canterbury is well-known from The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories written in Middle English (the predominant literary language in England from approximately 1300 to 1500 AD) by Geoffrey Chaucer (c1342-1400).
Canterbury is also a popular place for business, home to the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University and Canterbury Technical College.
Canterbury has been occupied from Neolithic times (the Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age being c10500 BC - c4000 BC) as evidenced by archaeological finds in Canterbury such as flint arrowheads and Bronze Age artefacts. Canterbury is thought to take its name from the Brythonic Cair Ceint meaning ‘Fort or City of the Legion’ which was its Roman name, probably due to it being a fortress during the invasion of Britain in AD 43.
Created: 30 October 2021 Edited: 29 November 2023
Canterbury
Local History around Canterbury
There are some historic monuments around including:
Bigberry campDane John Mound and Roman and medieval remains in Dane John GardenVacant land within Roman walls in Adelaide PlaceDovecote at Burnt House FarmDispersed medieval settlement remains and a Roman building immediately south west of St Cosmus and St Damian's ChurchMedieval wall of Black Prince's ChantrySt Augustine's monastic conduit house, King's ParkBlackfriarsA pair of bowl barrows in Clowes WoodCity wall (site) and ditch on Rheims WayTower of St Magdalene's ChurchBowl Barrow 350M E.S.E. of Capel farm in Mounts WoodChristchurch Priory and Archbishop's PalaceHospital of St John the BaptistSite of St Radigund's HospiceSt George's Church towerHorton ChapelBowl barrow situated in the southern part of Iffin Wood, 100m east of New House LaneCanterbury CastleConduit House, NE of Victoria married quarters, Military RoadCanterbury city wallsSt Augustine's AbbeyCity wall and bastion in Westgate GardensRoman cist burials in Gorsley WoodRoman site, Butchery LanePart of the Tyler Hill medieval pottery and tile industryAnglo-Saxon cemetery on Hanging Hill, Bridge, immediately south west of Watling StreetArchbishop's Palace, BekesbourneThe GuildhallA deserted medieval manorial settlement and associated earthworks in Iffin WoodRoman remains on Marlowe car parkBowl barrow 400m north-east of Buckholt Farm in Mounts WoodBowl barrow situated in the northern part of Iffin Wood, 120m east of New House LaneAbbot's Mill and sluice at Blackfriars StreetSite of church and graveyard of St Mary de CastroGreyfriars, Canterbury.Wildlife in and Around Canterbury
Mammals found in Canterbury
There have been 38 species of mammals recorded in the canterbury area.
| (Nyctalus/Eptesicus agg.) |
| 55 Khz Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) |
| Badger (Meles meles) |
| Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus) |
| Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) |
| 45 Khz Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) |
| American Mink (Neovison vison) |
| Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus) |
| Brown Long-Eared Bat (Plecotus auritus) |
| Common Dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) |
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Fish found in Canterbury
There have been 26 species of fish recorded in the canterbury area.
| Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) |
| Bream (Abramis brama) |
| Brown Trout (Salmo trutta subsp. fario) |
| Bullhead (Cottus gobio) |
| Chub (Squalius cephalus) |
| Barbel (Barbus barbus) |
| Brook Lamprey (Lampetra planeri) |
| Brown/Sea Trout (Salmo trutta) |
| Carp (Cyprinus carpio) |
| Dace (Leuciscus leuciscus) |
