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Apr 16, 2024 · Knowledgeable guides from Canterbury Punting Company tell the city’s history as they guide you down the picturesque river. Tours last 45 minutes and cost £25 per adult at peak times (off-peak: £22.50). Tours leave from their cute Mooring Cafe & Bar on Water Lane. HAPPY MOORING.
Mar 14, 2021 · At the end of the 17th century, the travel writer Celia Fiennes said that Canterbury was a flourishing town. She described it as a noble city with handsome and neat buildings. Most of them were made of brick. n In the 18th century Canterbury dwindled to being a quiet market town although it did have a leather industry and a paper-making industry.
The history of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs stretches from the 1930s to the present day. Based in Belmore, a suburb of Sydney, the Bulldogs in 1935 were admitted to the New South Wales Rugby Football League (NSWRFL) competition, a predecessor of the current NRL competition. The Bulldogs won their first premiership in just their fourth ...
Perhaps the most famous of these are the fictitious pilgrims of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who followed the road from Southwark to the shrine of St Thomas at Canterbury, telling tales along the way. Today, pilgrims still follow the Pilgrim’s Way but now it is a designated route, one coming down from Southwark and the other across from ...
Canterbury a city in Kent, SE England, the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. St Augustine established a church and monastery there in 597, and it became a place of medieval pilgrimage, to the shrine of St Thomas à Becket. Canterbury bell a bellflower grown for ornament, named with reference to the bells on pilgrims' horses.
Geoffrey Fisher, 99th archbishop of Canterbury, was the first since 1397 to visit Rome, where he held private talks with Pope John XXIII in 1960. In 2005, Rowan Williams became the first archbishop of Canterbury to attend a papal funeral since the Reformation. He also attended the inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI.
By 1820, the city's silk industry had been killed by imported Indian muslins. The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, the world's first passenger railway, was opened in 1830. Between 1830 and 1900, the city's population grew from 15,000 to 24,000. Canterbury Prison was opened, just outside the city limits, in 1808.
