Canterbury

Worth seeing in and around Canterbury

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Canterbury Cathedral

   Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, England, founded in 597

   200 m · Wikipedia
2. 02
   St Augustine's Abbey

   Monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK

   600 m · Wikipedia
3. 03
   University of Kent

   Public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom

   2.1 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   St Martin's Church

   Church in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK

   1 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Diocese of Canterbury

   Church of England's diocese covering eastern Kent

   300 m · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Canterbury Christ Church University

   University in Kent, UK

   600 m · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Canterbury Castle

   Grade I listed castle in Canterbury, United Kingdom

   500 m · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St Lawrence Ground

   Cricket ground

   1.6 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Old Palace, Canterbury

   Grade I listed building in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK

   200 m · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Museum of Canterbury

    Local history museum, children's museum, heritage museum in Canterbury, Kent

    200 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Canterbury

Airports

London Stansted (STN), 89 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 89 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 109 km

Stations

Canterbury West railway station, 600 m · Chartham railway station, 5 km · Bekesbourne railway station, 4.4 km · Canterbury East railway station, 600 m · Sturry railway station, 3.8 km

• London → Canterbury

  87 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–12
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• London, Essex → Canterbury

  87 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–12
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• Luton, Luton → Canterbury

  123 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Canterbury

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Canterbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Canterbury – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.