CANTERBURY | Tour of Canterbury City Centre
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- CANTERBURY | Tour of Canterbury City Centre
This is a short walking tour of Canterbury to show the city centre streets and what's here!
Also watch our video of Whitby 👉🏻 • WHITBY TOUR | Full tou...
This is a walk through Canterbury City Centre showing the historic streets and buildings here on a very windy day! Canterbury was quiet when I filmed this (just coming out of lockdown) hence the empty streets.
It was strange to see Canterbury City Centre so quiet but I thought I'd document it anyway so you could see it for yourself.
I like the buildings here. ther'es some fantastic historical buildings all around Canterbury City Centre to see.
Canterbury, a cathedral city in southeast England, was a pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages. Ancient walls, originally built by the Romans, encircle its medieval centre with cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. Canterbury Cathedral, founded 597 A.D., is the headquarters of the Church of England and Anglican Communion, incorporating Gothic and Romanesque elements in its stone carvings and stained-glass windows.
Visitors flock to the incredible Canterbury Cathedral, which houses the famous shrine of medieval archbishop Thomas Beckett. St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's Church are also spectacular historical sites, and together with the cathedral form a UNESCO heritage site.
Canterbury was voted as the fifth best place to live in the UK and the best in Kent. It was voted as the 31st best place for architectural beauty and the 58th best for quality of life. The average family home costs £480,000 which puts it as one of the best places to live in the country.
Canterbury has been a European pilgrimage site of major importance for over 800 years since the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170. Today it is one of the most beautiful and historic cities in England.
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I have visited twice, can't wait to visit again!
Canterbury is wonderful. My wife and I love visiting there. I know that chain stores have moved in but so what. There are far more independent shops than chain stores. The historic charm is off the charts along with great restaurants, tea shops and pubs among many other things. We will be back. Oh, and at 1:20 our local when we’re in town.
Faversham is a beautiful town too.
Thank you for this video of Canterbury, a city I love.
great video and a beautiful city looking forward to your video of the cathedral
Was really excited to see this one, Canterbury is somewhere I have wanted to visit for a while . Definately now !
Can't wait to see the Cathedral 👍
So weird seeing some excited about somewhere I virtually go everyday. Hope you enjoy yourself!
You won't be disappointed!
Apart from the Cathedral and a couple of cafes, Canterbury has lost most of it's charm and atmosphere. The flagship store, Fenwicks, is surrounded by the usual UK grot, like Poundland, Greggs and McDonalds, which attracts all the fat, junk DNA types whose eyebrows meet in the middle. The shopping centre, the concrete jungle, design-influenced by some old timers in the local council who have the most myopic view of what makes a decent centre. With all the history Canterbury has, and the amazing opportunity they had to design something special, they just build dull, shapeless, Communist looking buildings and write some meaningless scrawl on the pavement where some artefacts were found. Debenhams has gone, Past Times, Nasons, the list goes on. The usual suspects like Prezzo, NEXT, Zizzi, ASK, etc all blandly line the street, and the Marlowe Theatre thrives on irritating pantomimes for those parents who think this is entertaining, or old 1930s jazz nights. Bath, York, Cambridge, Bristol, Winchester are wealthy and beautiful and business thrives; as well as having intelligent conversation and people worth talking to. Canterbury has no real money, no decent business in the high street lasts and the only intelligent conversation is from a foreign visitor who is generally greeted by the stench of fried sausages and burgers in the high street, and feral school kids shrieking like apes and shouting at each other as if they all have attention deficit syndrome. A very sad, dull and lifeless place to be, compared to 20 years ago.
@@adamant5419 Couldn't agree more. Although living just 2 miles away we prefer Ashford for shopping. Note the e-bike and food delivery cycle riding through the pedestrinised street. And the Archbishop of Canterbury does not reside there, his residence is Lambeth Palace in London.
Lovely city. Reminds me of York in some places.
True
I enjoyed this video. Visited Canterbury several times...however go before 18.00hr it becomes GHOST TOWN at night..It looks VERY quiet here was it filmed early morning in
Winter or in COVID-19 lockdown.,SUMMER IS VERY BUSY and NOT WINDY
Yeh was early morning around 2019 I think
Hey mate great place been once before few years ago
Thanks for a great video..👍
My pleasure
Weird seeing where I live on CZcams. Cheers for giving it a look around!
You're welcome - I'll be back again to film a busier one!
Nice place, but very quiet in this video, I like to see places with plenty of people around and a buzz in the town.
Must have been early morning! Plenty of people there on Friday morning at around 10 a.m., and it was sunny and warm.
I can only film what’s in front of me
It's busy in town at moment lots of tourists
@@GimbalWalkTV thats not true you could also point the camera behind you ;)
@@singlecell2498 ha ha true!
Real quality vid , what kit do you use as it looks so good . would love to know , as i enjoy all your vids . Must be difficult too plan where you go , too do it all in one shot . But you do it well . Regards .
👍👍😁😁
We were there on Friday!
How was it?
As you are in Canterbury, perhaps you may show us el village of Rye
Watching from India 🇮🇳
Lovely place..... lovely Vedio with Excellent details 🌹🙏♥️🧡👍
Thank you so much 🙂
You couldn't have picked a worse period of time to see it. Bin men in the road, groundworks (which have now been completed)and the front of the cathedral in scaffolding which is als gone now. Try again.
I intend to 👍
Canterbury City have an ultra fan group, they're called the Sylvanian Families.
They have a a nail voice choir hooligan chant, where they hum the 60s TV theme tune, 'Tales of The Riverbank.'
😮
Some reason it gets windy and can be colder in town I find.
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I am international student is there any job opportunities!!
Not sure
Chaucer's nun is still nearer to Tashkent than posh Kent... "Laaaaaangwidge skuel."
😮
Maybe it was empty because people have gone to the coastal areas for holidays? Or headed into London to catch the royals? They won't be here in Australia, because Adelaide & the east coast are having a good old wet, windy & cold winter.
This was filmed months ago and looking at the businesses walked past I would say it was before 10am
It's not quiet at moment lots people about , lots of tourists around at moment.
Canterbury - crime capital of Kent!!
Really?
No it's not, yes there is crime but it's safer city then a lot of places.
This is just recycled footage from your previous videos on Canterbury. Looks to be at least a year old maybe older during the pandemic based on the business and construction shown.
It is
i dare you, go to hales place
Where's that?
Hales place make it sound like the Bronx, come on now 😱 don't listen , not that bad🙄
Use to be a very well kept council estate but they have let in a number of rough houses and it's gone down hill!
Town so empty
Yeah 😢
@@GimbalWalkTV when did u film it been busy in town, tourism seems to be good again after panademic.
Apart from the Cathedral and a couple of cafes, Canterbury has lost most of it's charm and atmosphere. The flagship store, Fenwicks, is surrounded by the usual UK grot, like Poundland, Greggs and McDonalds, which attracts all the fat, junk DNA types whose eyebrows meet in the middle. The shopping centre, the concrete jungle, design-influenced by some old timers in the local council who have the most myopic view of what makes a decent centre. With all the history Canterbury has, and the amazing opportunity they had to design something special, they just build dull, shapeless, Communist looking buildings and write some meaningless scrawl on the pavement where some artefacts were found. Debenhams has gone, Past Times, Nasons, the list goes on. The usual suspects like Prezzo, NEXT, Zizzi, ASK, etc all blandly line the street, and the Marlowe Theatre thrives on irritating pantomimes for those parents who think this is entertaining, or old 1930s jazz nights. Bath, York, Cambridge, Bristol, Winchester are wealthy and beautiful and business thrives; as well as having intelligent conversation and people worth talking to. Canterbury has no real money, no decent business in the high street lasts and the only intelligent conversation is from a foreign visitor who is generally greeted by the stench of fried sausages and burgers in the high street, and feral school kids shrieking like apes and shouting at each other as if they all have attention deficit syndrome. A very sad, dull and lifeless place to be, compared to 20 years ago.
dirty, antisicial, drug den ... Not at all the place it used to be..
😮😮😮
It's not that bad come on now....yes smell skunk grrr but that's everywhere now . This is still safe place.
Town so empty
Not today wasent really busy of late tourism is good again