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Canterbury began life as an Iron Age settlement before the Cantiaci settled here in 1st century AD – the city’s name was derived from that of the Celtic tribe. They were quickly uprooted as Romans invaded in AD 43, imposing a grid structure on the streets, and, later, building the city walls.
When the Romans left Canterbury in AD 407, it was largely abandoned until St Augustine arrived two centuries later, keen to convert local Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. St Augustine’s Abbey, collectively with St Martin’s
