Take A Stroll Through Canterbury's Best Sights With our Historic City Walk!
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Canterbury is just one of those cities not to be missed!
We'll show you the best things to see in Canterbury, as we walk the city and tell you some of the history behind Canterbury.
Whether you want to know where Charles Dickens stayed on his visits to Canterbury, or where the knights plotted to murder Thomas Beckett. Take a punt down the river stour or visit the crooked house, we'll show you in our travel guide to Canterbury with some history included.
Just 50 minutes from London by train Canterbury is very accessible for a day trip from London and should be on an Itinerary you have when visiting the capital!
If you like video, then check out our guide to Winchester the ancient capital of England before London.
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Links from video:-
Booking a Train www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/
Parking www.canterbury.gov.uk/parking...
Coach www.nationalexpress.com/
More places to see in Canterbury www.canterbury.co.uk
Museums canterburymuseums.co.uk/
Punting the river www.canterburyrivertours.co.uk/
Cathedral Tickets www.canterbury-cathedral.org/
St Augustine Abbey Tickets www.english-heritage.org.uk/
Chapters:-
0:00 Intro
0:29 High St
2:23 Geoffrey Chaucer
3:12 Weavers House
4:11 The Friars
4:55 Punting
5:51 Kings Mile
7:22 Crooked House
8:33 Palace Street
10:36 Sun Hotel Charles Dickens
11:15 Butter Market
12:09 Burgate
13:04 St Augustines Abbey
14:39 Queen Bertha
15:11 West Gate
15:58 West Gate Gardens
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If you enjoyed our tour of Canterbury then you can now complete it with a full tour of the Cathedral as we have been back to film it. ua-cam.com/video/tE2s7QX8ZpQ/v-deo.html
Would love to.
Compliments for marvellous documentary my friend.
Some people are dreaming of a crazy life in LA or Dubai.
I’m dreaming of a nice cottage house in the English countryside.
Canterbury, Cotswolds, Towcester, Buckingham…
Cities like Oxford, Birmingham, Wolverhampton*, Nottingham*, and Liverpool* are amazing!!!
I have friends and family over there* and when I was visited them… ohhh😍🥳🤩
What a place Britain is… I love it (and the weather too!) from North to South it’s beautiful!
We too would a cottage in the Cotswolds!
It was nice to read your comment.
The grass is greener on the other side. I wish I lived in Greece lol
The home of my ancesters and where my heart lays although l now live many thousand of miles away Thank you for taking me down memory lane.
Our pleasure!
Where do you live now Valerie!? That was nice to read!
Australia...... Thanks again for the tour. ❤
I live in Canterbury and I can say it’s beautiful! However the general high street is collapsing and we have lost some big department store like Debenhams and Nasons. The city has so much history though it’s unbelievable!
So many city centre are suffering even before COVID. Such a shame.
I'm glad we still have Fenwicks.
Nasons closure was not a surprise to me but still very sad . UK high streets are just going down . Love Canterbury and would love to live there but can't afford to , health care worker and the rents are way above my means . Beautiful city and I catch a train in when I can . My local high street is named as one of the 10 worst in the UK 😶 And it's true . Think we are actually in the bottom 5 🤔
I was born here and it's still an amazing place to be I don't live there any more haven't been for a few years now I still miss the place
@@MemorySeekers Covid is a scam. It will be back,this autumn, brace yourself. Gov goonies will strike again.
We are going to Canterbury in August - I am so excited to walk down the streets, wander about the parks, visit the cathedral ... 😊
Have a wonderful time!
That green door makes me want to go through. But oh my! You only get coffee & walnut cake like that in Britain. I used to bring home loads when I visited. I loved the video, but all I can think of right now is that cake…
I wanted to go inside for cake but was not allowed. ☺️
@@MemorySeekers oh no! That’s just cruel!
I was born in this lovely city and though I left in 1940 my Mother Father and Brothers always thought of Canterbury as our home
I have lived here for 6years now. Best 6years of my life. Forever in love with the city. Always something to see.
Thanks for taking me home. I went to school at The Langton and my ancestors come from Canterbury. My forebears are buried in the cathedral and one of them was archbishop Bourchier. I Loved this.
Wow big connection to the city for you. Wonderful!
Excellent video of Canterbury! I have always wondered what it looked like after reading Chaucer. All the best to you from Massachusetts!
So glad to have shown you!
The buildings are So incredibly Beautiful! Thank you so much.
It's a literary journey , ..of Chaucer's, ..of Eliot's , ...Beckett's martyrdom , ..a heart rending history, ...Chaucer's , ..one of the best in literature to recall ...thank the video for knowledge sharing
This city is beautiful and fascinating ... Canterbury has captured my heart, I hope so much who knows one day, have the opportunity to visit, in the meantime I am content to see it virtually, thank you so much 💖💖
There's a spare room here for you if you ever visit!
My dad was born and raised in Canterbury during WWII. Grandad’s family had been there for several centuries. I have several ancestors buried at St Martins and St Dunstans.
Canterbury is a real treat, there is so much to see. By the way, I just finished J. Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales' and therefore I was espesially pleased to see his statue. Thank you for sharing! Excellent place! 🥰🥰🥰🖐🖐🖐
It really is a wonderful place, what a coincidence you were reading it.
Went to Canterbury some years ago and really enjoyed it, since watching your lovely city walks it has tempted me to visit again soon.😊
We hope you do, always more to see, something you missed last time you see this. Enjoy
que maravilla,que preciosidad,soy una enamorada de vuestro pais,me encanta INGLATERRA todo el pais,espero que algun dia este mal sueño que estamos viviendo se acabe,y pueda visitarla,muchas gracias por el video tan precioso.
Gracias por el comentario encantador. Esperamos también que usted también pueda visitar sin los riesgos de la pandemia. Todo lo mejor.
Excellent video! We were lucky, as American tourists, to take a full day trip from London with the “London Walks” group to visit there several years ago. The guide organized our train tickets, walked with us into the city and cathedral and we had time for our own exploration as well. Your video showed the great variety of historical architecture and the lively atmosphere of an active city, which is not just a tourist site. Inside the Cathedral, we were invited to view a 30 minute ceremony that was led by the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Listening to his beautiful booming voice inside the Cathedral was an unexpected treat! Canterbury, like Winchester, Salisbury, Durham and York, are well worth the visit! Thanks again for your great videos - so helpful to visitors!
Thank you for sharing such a lovely personal experience. What a super memory to have of Canterbury. So glad you have enjoyed the video.
Would love to be able to see these places you go for myself. Unfortunately not in the foreseeable future unless I hit the lottery. I can continue to dream though. Love love love your videos. Keep them coming.😊👍🏻
Glad we can bring them to you virtually 😊
Well you did it once again!! Beautiful. Hopefully when the Covid is just a sad memory you will go back and show us the beautiful cathedral. Thank you for making my Saturday a special day. Hugs and blessings.
Our pleasure Joen.
Exeptionally beatiful city. It's amazing that the British kept their historic antiquity in such a srate. Thank you a lot. Enjoyed every moment.
I am so glad we still have this history too!
Coventry was unique until Hitler destroyed it , bombing civilians we don't moan because it's in the past and we are white not black at the moment
What an incredible town steeped with history. Just beautiful. Thank you so much. From California💜🤟🏻😎🍀🇺🇸
Hello thank you for commenting watching and enjoying the videos 😊
Been there twice and saw only a few highlights. Thanks for this more in depth view . You get the feeling that you actually are there !
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
CANTERBURY ...MY DEAR GOD !....SHE TOO HAS TUDOR HOUSES ! , MAGICAL SCENERY , AN ASTONISHING CATHEDRAL , ...AND GOD KNOWS HOW MUCH MORE 😭😭💖🏴...I ALWAYS LOVED MY COUNTRY 💖🏴💥🔥...AND I WILL ALWAYS WILL ....BUT THE MORE I SEE ABOUT TOWNS OF ENGLAND ....THE LESS I KNOW ....BUT THE MORE I LOVE IT 🏴🏴🏴💖💖💖💖💖💖💖😭👍🏻✌🏻💥🔥😱
mon coeur se brise j'avais oublié a quel point c'est beau , j'étais jeune et stupide je ne faisais pas attention a l'histoire : !thanks for "la promenade"
J'espère que vous avez apprécié la promenade et l'histoire. ☺
You would never get bored in this particular, and beautiful city! 🤣. Thank you for this most interesting and educational video!
Thank you Cassandra, still more to see that we didn’t have time for so yes never get bored. 😊
Canterbury is on my must-see list, this excellent video only reinforces that desire. Great info, as usual, I like the maps and the transport information.
Your videos are the best travelling videos I know on British sights!
Thank you so kind 😊
Thank you for a lovely tour through the city! I look forward to your tour of the cathedral!
A well informed tour of Canterbury. Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed the tour.
Thank you!
Thank you for this tour of such a beautiful city😊
So welcome
Another winning video ! Thank you for a splendid tour . Canterbury's history is rich indeed .
Thank you for this fascinating video.
I've been visiting Canterbury Cathedral since I was a small child over 50yrs ago.
I want to return as soon as I can and explore this historic city
Hope our video helps guide you to the sights 😊
You deserve to come on television.
Lot of hard work in ur videos.
Ahh thank you! Very kind.
Thank you for the tour .. It brings back many fond memories though a lot have changed. I was a foreign student at the Canterbury Christ Church College decades ago and would love to visit one day.
Thank you for watching, so glad we stirred those memories for you.
Beautiful! Canterbury is now on my "must see" list, I had no idea it was quite so quaintly picturesque. And thank you for including the bit about how to get there via public transport!
So pleased our video makes you want to visit Donna, it’s what we strive to do!
We agree Donna! We're going to need to add Canterbury to our travel list ourselves! That architecture and charm looks incredible! 😊
I've lived here for years, it isn't as amazing as this dude is making it out to be haha its fun sure but you see some stupid shit
@@JamesGunton same in any city
@@JamesGunton About to relocate to Canterbury in 20 Days😧
Wow what a beautiful city that is. It’s so lovely to see the old buildings. In Australia of course we have nothing like that. Really enjoying this and thanks for taking me along. P,ease stay safe and take care
Had a great meal at The Old Buttermarket when we visited Canterbury in 2017. The Cathedral was covered in scaffolding back then. Its a beautiful city, would love to go back one day, post Covid.
The buttermarket does seem like a nice bustling hub in the town. We had a beer in the corner pub the name escapes me but was very quaint.
Super video! Always nice to see Canterbury videos. I lived in Canterbury for 18 mos while on a Fulbright Teaching Exchange from the US, and the Kings School was my assignment! My house number, hanging by the front door, was purchased from Canterbury Pottery in the Butter Market. Going back next week to visit friends I made during that time. BTW, I’ve been binging your videos!!
Hello, thank you for sharing your experiences in Canterbury. after 18 months you would know it well. Have fun on your trip and thanks for watching.
Thank you very much for the excellent video. Cantrerbury will be one of the first places I will go next summer if the covid restrictions do not continue. I am amazed.
Hope you make it! 😊
Had no idea this was such an absolutely picturesque city. Knew about the cathedral but little else! Thank you for sharing. Really loved every minute.
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Yes, & it's so nicely done (the video).
Covid has taken it's toll on lovely Canterbury, many businesses have struggled or closed but the beauty remains. Hot tip, The Veg Box is a great vegetarian spot to have lunch...
Yes like many towns and cities, hopefully people will come back and things will pick up. Thank you for the suggestion.
A must to see, thank you, again professionally done, well Done guys.
Thank you!
Beautiful me liked so much hearing about this village and now l can see in this video how many people live there ? Thank you very much and good job👍🇪🇸
Thank you for watching.
A splendid tour (a tour de force, indeed) of such deep history and preserved beauties. Thank you for choosing such beautiful but unobtrusive music. Also to be savoured is your style of orientation. Brilliant!🙏👍
Thank you so kind 😊
@@MemorySeekers Yes, I really enjoyed the music. I listen to Medieval music/pieces. Can you give more information on the music? Thanks.
@@Dreamskater100 This is a list of all the tracks with came from www.epidemicsound.com/
A King's Ransom - Bonnie Grace
Barefoot Adventure - Adriel Fair
Careful Motion - Spectacles Wallet and Watch
Crusaders - Adriel Fair
Ice Breaking 2 - Jan Nordbring
In the Box - Spectacles Wallet and Watch
Mixed Up Occasions - Stationary Sign
Mural Legends - Adriel Fair
River - Headlund
River Free - Boil The Ocean
Rivers End - Hampus Naeselius
They are not in any particular order but hope that helps.
@@MemorySeekers Thank you! Yes, Epidemic sound is really good!
Really appreciate it. 🎼🎵
I must say, your videos are a welcome sight to view with all relevant information on attractions and sights to potentially visit. It is just what we have been looking for to give us a good idea of places that we want to visit this year as opposed to venturing abroad. Thanks and cheers👍
Hello Robert, so glad you liked it, in a few weeks on the channel we have a video on the Cathedral. Been back and visited and have that and the oldest church in England we missed in Canterbury as well. So look of that! Hope all the info was is helpful.
Those places are beautiful I never visited England 🏴 yet but I will and with your advice’s will be easier
Hope you do! Thank you
Wonderful and certainly it is now at the top of my hit lists to visit, such exciting architecture .
So glad it made you want to visit and see it in person!
Thank you so much for your tour of the beautiful Canterbury and such a great historic buildings ❤❤❤
Our pleasure!
Our daughter and her partner live close to Canterbury, so we often visit it.
The buildings are amazing and so full of history.
Thank you for a fantastic video.
Lovely place to live. Glad you liked it.
Lindo Canterbury! Amo passear lá ❤
I enjoyed this video very much. My surname is Kent. My family's heritage dates back to this area from the 6th century, King Æthelberht of Kent. As a professor, I've also guest lectured there at the Univ of Kent. So good to reconnect with my heritage.❤️
Thanks for sharing your links to Canterbury, so glad you enjoyed our video. Thanks for watching.
Absolutely Beautiful! Added to my bucket list, would love to visit the Cathedral. God Bless!😇🙏
Hope to go back soon and visit the cathedral 😊
Love the video. The buildings and houses look amazing fantastic tour.
Looks like a beautiful day to go walking.
Thanks again for sharing..
No problem, thank you for watching.
My favourite Canterbury town where I go for shopping 🛍every time. Thank you for sharing 🙏
Once again a beautiful place , stunning thankyou
Yhank you for making these videos yours are some of the best videos of the UK on youtube 😀 Elaine South Africa
Ah that is so kind thank you!
Always enjoy these beautiful videos
Thank you
Thank you for this beautiful video.
Thank you for watching.
Absolutely love Canterbury , visit regularly and think I have been in pretty much every shop and eaten in most of the restaurants 😅 The Old Weavers is definitely my favourite . Take a picnic ' tho and eat in one of the lovely parks , and the Cathedral is well worth a visit ( it was closed on my last visit possibly due to the Covid situation )
I am obsessed with this channel! This video is a perfect example of your great work and I’m planning my next trip to the Uk accordingly.
Thank you much, very kind.
Absolutely fantastic you have done a wonderful job of showcasing the best our country has to offer, your videos are so professional and your narration is perfect WELL DONE and long may you continue trophy 🏆
Thank you for the lovely comment. ☺
This is yet another beautiful place in England and I once again enjoyed the beautiful shots and commentary!
Now that I've gotten a lot older, I find these old places more beautiful and interesting, but I really have no idea why that is, maybe the atmosphere in this movie plays a big part.
All these recordings get a nice place in my computer with my favorites.
Hello thank you for the lovely comment, so glad you are enjoying our travel and adding them to your favourites 😊 all the best.
I went to Canterbury this morning .
What a Gorgeous small city.
Thank you so much for your videos.
Glad you loved it!
Happy 2022 to all!!! 🥂🥂♥️Beautiful city, one of my list for years. Hoping virus allows us to travel again 🙄🙃😎😘😘😘
Happy New Year! Yes hope everyone can travel more this year!
Thank you for posting I visited way back in the 1970s never saw many of the buildings you captured so well, makes me think I need another visit, take care
Hope you do make another visit. Really would worth a first hand experience. Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Your videos are so informative and interesting, thank you so much.
Wish you much more success with the channel. Keep up the great work 👏🏻
Thank you very much. So kind 😊
I visited UK in November 2022. Beautiful country and lovely people.
Naeem from Pakistan
Thank you for visiting, glad you enjoyed your time here.
Love traveling with you on you tube. I have relatives who live in England from my uncle and late sister-in-law. They are all so beautiful. I love all the small villages.
Thank you Betty, so pleased you like joining us. We are showing so Canada videos at the moment back have many little villages coming up soon! 😊
Absolutely beautiful city, filled with centuries upon centuries of history! Cannot wait to see your video on the stunning cathedral, and of course visit it all for myself. Really love your channel.
Yes hopefully we can get back later in the year and cover the Cathedral it was a real shame not to be able to visit that day.
Great commentary and beautifully shot video! THANK YOU!
I was born and bred in Canterbury , now I live in Spain I was showing my Students this video to show them where I am from . Pity you didn't visit in May/June to show of the west gate gardens in full bloom and when the river is clear from rain wash and looks crystal clear . I must say I am now home sick after watching this . I would also say that Canterbury is changing and becoming busier and the traffic is horrendous most days . Canterbury also has 2 train stations and a extensive bus station that you can use to visit most places in the region . Restaurants galore and many pubs bars and is most defiantly very trendy place to go . With links to Whitstable on the coast it is a very good base to sight see the region. I could talk all day about my Home of Canterbury , I feel very fortunate to of spent 40 years of my life there and although my body is not there my heart certainly remains imbedded in and woven into the beautiful City . I miss you
Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions for others, very helpful. We stirred the memories for you. So glad you enjoyed it.
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This is such a great video! Thanks a lot! Now we know what we are gonna see:)
Such a adorable city...fantastic video, this is what history means - so charming & amazing beauty.. oldest school looks old but so elegant & streets r just what England beauty stands for... 👌👌
It is a lovely city really surprised us
This seems to be a very charming place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future when all this is over. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
Thank you for joining us in the trips.
This is a beautiful city full of history. I wish I can visit some day.TQ.
Hope you can
TQ so much
Haya. Another wonderful video. Old buildings are just so amazing. The wonky building was great to see. That dipping chair leaves a lot to be desired, glad that is no longer is use, haha. Thanku so much for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
What a great video it really cheered me up on a dark Sunday afternoon 🙏
Thank you Graham glad that it did!
I visited cantembury in 1994 for onde day , so lovely and beautiful
So greenly
Another great video! Just came here via the link from your latest video on Canterbury (left comment there). Just subbed and looking forward to your next posting.
Welcome Arthur, thank you for subbing and joining us. Lots of videos to catch up on!
Thanks for the interesting tour. Looking forward to your new videos.
Thank you we have new videos every two weeks at the moment.
@@MemorySeekers I've already looked at all of them.😁
Super, thank you!! Beautiful!
Many thanks!!
Great video! Informative editing and beautiful footage.
I have never visited Canterbury, don't know why. I knew it was picturesque, but I didn't realise how architecturally interesting it is. Thanks for sharing this great tour of the city. New friend in The New Forest :)
Hello hope you make the trip at some point well worth it! Great day out, welcome thank you for joining us!
Just excellent! Thank you.
Thanks for watching 😀
Magnificent video about Canterbury!!! More and more I desire to visit UK and your historic places. Middle age city are so gorgeous that I stay without words to describe my feelings. Thank you for sharing with us such amazing towns 🤩
Thank you so much, glad you liked it. Hope you get to visit one day.
Wonderful video and narration 😊👍♥️
Thank you
As we are doing the pilgrimage route from Winchester this summer your vids are most helpful. 😊
So glad they have been helpful. Have a wonderful trip.
Wonderful 💖💖
Spectacular video. I was just there and it looks just the same. Very helpful to me in getting around snd not lost! Thank you!
Hello Carol, so pleased our tour helped not get lost and see some of the main sights. Hope you had good weather.
I just find plan for this weekend, thanks a lot amazing video
Hope you have a wonderful time, weather looking pretty good!
This was the loveliest travel video I’ve ever seen! I like the way you linger on your points of interest. I doubt I’ll ever make it back to England (from the US-my family came here from Yorkshire), so this meant a great deal to me. I’ll be sure to watch your other videos and thank you so much.
Hello, thank you for the lovely comment. So glad you enjoyed the tour and want to watch more. ☺
@@MemorySeekers I’m going to watch the Winchester one today. Btw, I live next to Winchester, Connecticut where we are below zero F today! Brrrrrr!
@@QueenBee-gx4rp I did not know there was a Winchester, Connecticut! Well keep warm and enjoy the video!
Exquisite historical city
Enjoyed this video very much and will watch again. Your videos are very accomplished.
Ah thank you so much! 😊
Love to see more of Canterbury especially the Cathedral.
Well, we have been back in the last two weeks and filmed the Cathedral, all be it with some scaffolding inside in places, and to the oldest church St Martin. Just need to get it edited so coming soon!
Thank you@@MemorySeekers
Fantastic video
Canterbury is a lovely city; the architecture is stunning and the Cathedral is really atmospheric. We stayed in converted stables in the House of Agnes; very nice 😊
How lovely
Ah, how lovely. I spent three glorious days exploring Canterbury in 2017 (including a day trip to Rye), and it was grand to virtually wander through the streets again. I noticed on a real estate site that 8 Palace Street was for sale recently, but I unfortunately have not yet won the lotto to make it my own. ;) Thank you for another great video tour!
Hello, how nice to have spent 3 days there. Plenty of time to really see the city. Yes the location is for sale for £745,000! Of course you have to prepared for all the tourists looking in through your windows.
@@MemorySeekers £745,000?! The listing I saw was £950,000. It must have been reduced. I live in a home built in the 1880s, which is considered ancient by Canadian standards. To have a house of Medieval vintage would be amazing... especially inspiring for writers like me! As for tourists, there are only a couple of windows facing the street level. Just keep the curtains drawn. ;)