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Bed and Breakfast - No.7 Longport 7 Longport | Canterbury, CT1 1PE | Tel: +44 (0) 1227 455367 7 Longport offers a choice of places to stay: an original 15th century cottage for Bed and Breakfast, or Love Lane, a three bedroom Georgian cottage, where you can cater for yourself or, if you prefer, can still choose B & B Email: [email protected] | www.7longport.co.uk

Bed and Breakfast - Magnolia House 36 St Dunstan’s Terrace | Canterbury, CT2 8AX | Tel: +44 (0) 1227 765121 Magnolia House is a lovely Georgian home set in a quiet residential area close to the city centre Email: [email protected] | www.magnoliahousecanterbury.co.uk

The Ebury Hotel 65-67 New Dover Road | Canterbury, CT1 3DX | Tel: +44 (0) 01227 768433 Ebury Hotel is one of the finest hotels in Canterbury. It is located close to Canterbury’s shops and Cathedral, offering gardens, a restaurant, indoor pool and parking. www.ebury-hotel.co.uk

The Falstaff Hotel 8-10 St Dunstan's St | Canterbury, CT2 8AF | Tel: +44 (0) 1227 462138 The Falstaff is a conveniently located hotel in Canterbury, with free parking and walking distance from both the city centre and Canterbury West railway station. Email: [email protected] | www.thefalstaffincanterbury.com

Canterbury Cathedral Lodge The Precincts | Canterbury, CT1 2EH | Tel: +44 (0) 1227 865350 Set in the stunning secluded grounds of Canterbury Cathedral. All rooms have Cathedral views. www.canterburycathedrallodge.org

Holiday Inn Express Upper Harbledown | Canterbury, CT2 9HX | Tel: +44 (0) 1227 865000 Holiday Inn Express is situated 10 minutes by car from Canterbury city centre. This is a modern budget style hotel with lounge and bar area. www.hiexpress.com/hotels/gb/en/reservation

Thanington Hotel 140 Wincheap | Canterbury, CT1 3RY | Tel: +44(0) 1227 453227 Thanington Hotel is a short walk to the centre and East train station. It offers a bar, secure parking, garden and heated pool. www.thanington-hotel.co.uk

Tudor House 6 Best Lane | Canterbury, CT1 2JB | Tel: +44(0) 1227 765650 Tudor House is a 16th century building situated within the city walls, in the heart of Canterbury. www.tudorhousecanterbury.co.uk

The Pilgrims Hotel 18 The Friars | Canterbury | Tel: +44 (0)1227 464531 The Pilgrims Hotel is a 16th century family-run hotel. Ideally located in the historic heart of Canterbury's city centre directly opposite the Marlowe Theatre. www.pilgrimshotel.com

Travelodge Chaucer Central | 63 Ivy Lane| Canterbury, CT1 1TU | Tel: +44 (0) 871 984 6471 Budget price accommodation in a city centre location and within easy walking distance from East train station and bus station. www.travelodge.co.uk Cathedral Gate 36 Burgate | Canterbury, CT1 2HA | Tel: +44 (0) 01227 464381 This 1438 building predates seven the adjoining sculpted Cathedral Gateway. The Cathedral is set just 30 paces away as is central to the Buttermarket and shops, cafes and restaurants. www.cathgate.co.uk

Abbots Barton Hotel 36 New Dover Road | Canterbury, CT1 3DU | Tel: +44 (0) 01227 760341 This sits quietly in Canterbury, amongst 2 acres of beautiful, tranquil landscaped gardens. The hotel, as well as offering a delightful place to spend the day and night, is also the ideal base for visiting Canterbury city centre itself. The Cathedral, shops and tourist attractions are all within this wonderful citys walls just a 10 minute walk away. www.bestwestern.co.uk/hotels/abbots-barton-hotel-canterbury

YHA 54 New Dover Road | Canterbury, CT1 3DT | + 44 (0) 0845 371 9010 This recently refurbished hostel accommodation is only a 10 minute walk to the main campus and city centre. www.yha.org.uk/hostel/canterbury

Kipps Hostel 40 Nunnery Fields | Canterbury, CT1 3JT | Tel: +44 (0)1227 786121 | [email protected] Kipps Hostel is set in a beautiful 100 year old town house close to the main campus and city centre. www.kipps-hostel.com

Premier inn 1-7 New Dover Road | Canterbury | Kent | CT1 1UP | T: 0871 527 9408 Ideally located within walking distance of the historic sights of this stunning cathedral city and Canterbury East train station www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/CANDOV/canterbury-city-centre

House of Agnes 71 St Dunstans Street | Canterbury | Kent | CT2 8BN | T: 01227 472185 | E: [email protected] The House of Agnes dates back to the 15th Century. It was referred to by name in Charles Dickens’ novel ‘David Copperfield’ as the House of Agnes Whitfield who eventually became David’s second wife. Centrally located, this beautiful Bed and Breakfast has the largest walled garden in Canterbury and free off-road parking. Only 200m from Canterbury West train station and a short walk from the Cathedral. www.houseofagnes.co.uk

University Accommodation www.canterbury.ac.uk/support/conferences/accommodation Excellent quality accommodation is available during the summer months of July, August and September in Canterbury. In Canterbury all accommodation is situated in the centre of the City and so is just a short walk away from the Cathedral and the many other attractions that the City has to offer.

Hotel and Bed & Breakfast search websites For general information about Canterbury

www.bookings.com/Hotels Tourist Information Centre www.canterbury.co.uk www.travelsupermarket.com/hotels Canterbury City Council www.laterooms.com www.canterbury.gov.uk

www.hotels.com Canterbury Christ Church University www.canterbury.ac.uk Canterbury Cathedral Evensong 5.15pm – 6pm

Canterbury Cathedral - Guided Tour (approx. 1hr 15 mins) The Cathedral’s history goes back to 597AD when St Augustine, sent by the Pope Gregory the Great as a missionary, established his seat (or ‘Cathedra’) in Canterbury. In 1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in the Turner Contemporary Cathedral and ever since, the Cathedral has attracted thousands of pilgrims, as Situated on Margate’s seafront the told famously in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The guides are experts gallery is the largest exhibition space in at making the Cathedral come to life and introduce you to the key areas of the the South East, outside of London. Cathedral. www.turnercontemporary.org

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River Tours (40mins) (April – October) Boating and punting in Historic Sandwich Canterbury has been a favourite Sandwich is arguably one of the best preserved pastime on the River Stour for a medieval towns in the UK. Within the old number of years. This river tour town walls the many period houses, with their offers one of the most enjoyable characteristic “Kent peg” roofs, are laid out in insights into Canterbury’s a street plan which has changed little since the historic past. Dover Castle This magnificent castle above the White Cliffs of Dover offers creation of the Domesday book in 1086. the chance to explore exhibitions, secret wartime tunnels and www.open-sandwich.co.uk experience the opulence of the Great Tower. www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/dover-castle

Canterbury Roman Museum Dover Museum – Bronze Age Boat Explore the Roman town beneath your feet. Canterbury's One of the oldest museums in Kent and home for one of the most underground Roman Museum is built around the remains important archaeological discovers of recent years. After seven years of a Roman town house with mosaics preserved where of research and conservation the Dover boat is on display at the excavated. museum. www.dovermuseum.co.uk TOURIST INFORMATION

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Visit Canterbury - Tourist Information This website provides an informative insight to the district of Canterbury, its heritage, culture and history including details of its charming coastal town of Whitstable. www.canterbury.co.uk PARKING AND TRAVEL

Car parking • Parking on campus is at a premium and however • If you hold a Blue Disabled Person’s Badge, you we may be able to offer a limited number may park in any of the designated parking spaces of parking places for which a permit will be for disabled people in the University Car Parks required. Alternatively, delegates may wish You can visit our travel and maps page for information to consider parking facilities located near the on how to find us. University Park and Ride and local car parks Canterbury City Council

By rail: • London (St Pancras) to Canterbury West: High • London (Charing Cross or Waterloo East) to speed trains - journey time approximately 55 Canterbury West: journey time approximately 90 minutes. Trains depart on an hourly basis. minutes. • London (Victoria) to Canterbury East: journey Passengers who have to cross London from one main- time approximately 85 minutes. line terminus to another are advised to allow one hour between their arrival and departure times in which to do this. Further information on all rail routes can be found from National Rail Enquiries and South Eastern Trains

By air: • London Heathrow; London Underground to • London Luton; Train to London Bridge railway the National Rail mainline station you intend to station (50 mins), train from London Bridge travel from (see ‘rail’ tab). For more travel options to Canterbury West (90 mins) . National Rail see the Heathrow airport website. London Enquiries - Thameslink Trains - South Eastern Underground - National Rail Enquiries - South Trains Eastern Trains • London City Airport is easy to reach by public • London Gatwick; Gatwick Express to London transport, with a fast Docklands Light Railway Victoria (30 mins four times each hour). If you service linking to London’s Underground and are not traveling to Canterbury from London national rail stations. London (St Pancras) to Victoria, take the London Underground to the Canterbury West: High speed trains via Stratford National Rail mainline station you are traveling International is only 20 minutes away. from (see ‘rail’ tab). Gatwick Express - National www.londoncityairport.com Rail Enquiries - South Eastern Trains

• London Stansted; Train to Tottenham Hale station (30mins), London Underground to the National Rail mainline station you intend to travel from (see ‘rail’ tab).or Stansted Express to London Liverpool Street railway station (45 mins), London Underground to your National Rail mainline station. National Rail Enquiries - One Railway - Stansted Express - South Eastern Trains By Channel Tunnel: • From France; take the Eurostar to Ashford - • From France (by road/rail) take Le Shuttle from journey time approx 2 hours Paris, 1 hour Lille; Calais to the Folkestone Eurotunnel Terminal. then train to Canterbury West, 20 minutes [check From the terminal, follow signs to Folkestone, times with National Rail Enquiries] Eurostar - Dover, Canterbury and Ramsgate (M20/A20). National Rail Enquiries - South Eastern Trains Stay on the A20 until instructed to join the A260 signposted Canterbury - approx 40 minutes • From Belgium; take the Eurostar to Ebbsfleet journey time. EuroTunnel (Le Shuttle) - journey time approx 2 hours Brussels ; then coach to Canterbury West, 45 minutes [check times with National Express] Eurostar - National Express By Bus • National Express buses run from London Victoria coach station, Dover and other locations in the South East to Canterbury bus station. www.nationalexpress.co.uk CANTERBURY WEST STATION

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