2019

TR1557 : Broad Street and walls

taken 5 years ago, near to Canterbury, Kent, England

This is 1 of 2 images, with title starting with Broad in this square
Broad Street and walls
Broad Street and walls
Looking along the outside of Canterbury city walls along Broad Street.
Canterbury City wall & gates :: TR1457

Canterbury was surrounded by a wall in Roman times. Traces survive here and there. A fragment of the Roman Queningate can be seen in the city wall opposite St. Augustine's Great Gate, and further up, nearer Burgate, the Roman foundation of the wall is visible.

The walls are mentioned in several Anglo-Saxon documents. In 1011 the Danes succeeded in breaking into the city, slaughtering the inhabitants, and tossing them over the walls.

It has not yet been established whether the Roman and Saxon walls ran altogether on the same line as the later medieval walls, but about 1100 A.D. the city fortifications included the same area as they did to the end of the 18th century.

There were six gates in use in medieval times:-Northgate, Burgate, Newingate, Ridingate, Worthgate and Westgate. Later another came into existence, Wincheap Gate. The walls were frequently rebuilt and reconstructed but never called upon to withstand any real siege after 1011, though the city represented an important strongpoint in the system of national defence.

The West Gate is Grade I listed and a scheduled ancient monument.
The city walls are a scheduled ancient monument.


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Geographical Context: Roads, Road transport City, Town centre Primary Subject: Wall
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Canterbury [993] · Listed [731] · City Walls [109] ·
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TR1557, 1354 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
DS Pugh   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 20 August, 2019   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 9 March, 2020
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TR 1527 5782 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:16.7300N 1:5.1142E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TR 15268 57787
View Direction
North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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