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.