A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If antiquity orarchitefture be his favourite Jtiidles, here ie will have a more ample field to range in. They who ftay only an hour or two in Canterbury, generally choofe to fee our venerable cathedral. It will take more time to vifit the ruins of St. Auguftine's monaftery, and the little church of St....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If antiquity orarchitefture be his favourite Jtiidles, here ie will have a more ample field to range in. They who ftay only an hour or two in Canterbury, generally choofe to fee our venerable cathedral. It will take more time to vifit the ruins of St. Auguftine's monaftery, and the little church of St. Martin, without our walls. Thefe, and fome other particulars I fhall treat of here, may help to employ thofe hours to his fatisfaftien, which. he does not choofe to fpend at his inn. CHAPTER I. 9f THE 5JTVATIOH, ANTiqUWY, AND NAMES, Off CANTERBURY, Canterbury lies in latitude 51 degrees 17 minutes North, longitude I degree 15 minutes Eaft, from Greenwich obfervatory; it is feated in a pleafant valley, about a mile wide, between hills of a moderate height and eafy afcent, with fine fprings rifmg from them; befides which the river Stour runs through it, whofe ftreams, by often dividing and meeting again, water it the more plentifully, and forming iflands of various fizes, (in one of which, formerly called Binnewith, the weftern part of our city Hands, ) make the air good and the foil rich. Such a fitua- tion could hardly want inhabitants, while thefe parts had any inhabitants at all; nor was any fpot more likely to unite numbers in forming a neighbourhood, or a city, B 2 than than one Co well prepared by nature for defence ad cultivation. This, perhaps, is the moft authentic voucher in favour of their opinion, who make it a city almoft 900 years before the coming of our Saviour Chrift. Tokens of this high antiquity are hardly to be found, unlefs druids' beads, and the ancient brafs weapons called celts, which have been dug up hereabouts, may be looked on as fuch; but of Roman remains we have abundance. For, befides gates of their building, to be taken notice of...