Canterbury has been home to poets and playwrights and an inspiration to the writers of English literature trough the centuries.

St Margaret´'s Street:

Canterbury Tales

In that street you can find the Canterbury Tales Visitor Attraction.

Inside that historical building you can journey back 500 years to join Geoffrey Chaucer (a poet).

Is a recreation of medieval life and introduction to its literary connection.

Marlowe's Canterbury Walk

This walk celebrates the best known playwriters Christopher Marlowe. If you go on a walk you will see some buildings that for Marlowe, were familiar. In that walk you will also learn more about the death of the playwriter. There you can find the Marlowe theatre.

St Mildred's church

This church has a literary meaning because the writer Izaak Walton and her wife, Rachel, were married in that church in 1676.

Catle Street

Castle is the street where the writer William Sumner was born.

Greyfriars

This building was built in 1267.

An old Kentish family owned the Greyfriars, a beautiful late thirtheeth century building which spans the river Stour in the centre of the city.

Other writers who were realated to Canterbury

• Daniel Defoe: he lived in Canterbury in 1724 to preach at Blackfriars, which in that century was an Anabaptist Church.

• Jonathan Swift: his grandfather was the Rector of St Andrew's Church.

Goodnestone Park

Jane Austen's brother was married to the daughter of the family who owned Goodnestone Park. So , bacause of that marriage Jane Austen was invited as a visitor to the house.

• Richard Harris Barham: His family came to a town six miles south of Canterbury.

• John Keats: This poet is known to have visited Canterbury to experience the medieval atmosphere od the city.