‘Zyme’ (ancient Greek for a ‘ferment’ or ‘leaven’) is a microscopic single-celled fungi, commonly known as ‘yeast’. The word is the…
The yew tree (Taxus baccata) is often found in churchyards and is an important feature in many of Canterbury’s many heritage sites…
Most A-Z lists start to struggle once they get to the letter ‘X’, as the range of words beginning with ‘X’ is somewhat…
Edward Wotton, First Baron of Marley acquired St Augustine’s Palace as part of the Manor of Canterbury in 1612 and commissioned…
Roads go on / While we forget, and are / Forgotten like a star / That shoots and is gone. Edward Thomas
Canterbury Cathedral’s crypt or ‘Undercroft’ was designed and built to St Anselm’s instructions and begun around 1097. It is…
It is surprising how little we know about the gardens laid out by John Tradescant the elder at St Augustine’s Palace for…
When you stand in ruins of St. Augustine’s Abbey or amongst the tumbled stones of the Cathedral herb garden, site of…
Queen Eleanor of Provence (b. c. 1223 — d. 1291), the wife of Henry III, and one of England’s lesser-known medieval…