See. Via Francigena Walk this historic pilgrimage route from Canterbury to the Kent coast. Canterbury Cathedral Attend Evensong to experience beautiful singing and light in the quire. Aphra Behn Statue See the statue of the first female English writer on High Street.
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The Guardian
Repurposed railway lines make accessible and family-friendly walking and cycling routes. Here are some of the best, from Somerset to the Highlands of Scotland Start/ f inish Coombs Road in Bakewell to Blackwell Mill in Chee Dale , but there are lots of access points along the way Distance 8.5 miles Cycle, hike or ride a horse along the Monsal Trail to explore a swathe of Derbyshire’s industrial…
The Guardian
After exploring the cathedral city, I battled the heatwave while walking to the Kent coast on the Via Francigena Canterbury for Evensong. Is there a more delightful cluster of syllables in the English language? Old English, I should say, as æfensang comes from that tongue, an update on the Latin-derived “vespers”. But whatever you call the service, Canterbury Cathedral does it in style. How bea…
Atlas Obscura
On Canterbury's High Street stands a statue of Aphra Behn, a woman who defied societal constraints and indelibly shaped the landscape of English literature as the first woman in England to achieve financial independence through her writing. Born in Canterbury in 1640, Behn went on to work as a playwright, poet, novelist, and even a spy during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. As the first female writ…
The Guardian
Follow the folklore and you will discover a landscape full of wonder and powerful women – from a fearsome Scottish warrioress to the first queen of a united England It’s just past midday and I appear to be inside a rain cloud. Soaked to the skin, my walking boots squelching through tufts of grass and black bog mud, I can hear hundreds of streams rolling off this wide mid-Wales peak, each vying…
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