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This small water pumping station in King's Park is in stark contrast to the 12th century conduit house a few yards away Image Canterbury is a small historic city on the River Stour in Kent, some 54 miles southeast of London. Occupied since prehistoric times, it became an important Roman city. In 672, the see of Canterbury gained authority over the entire English Church. After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine until the Dissolution. Today, Canterbury is a popular tourist destination and one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom. The city has a substantial student population, with four university campuses.

On Chaucer Road.

Looking along a street in the east of Canterbury.

Amongst a modern housing estate is set this conduit house. Part of the monastic water supply for the Abbey of St Augustine. The conduit house dates from the mid 12th century and is sited at the edge of a large artificial catchment pond, now destroyed. A Scheduled Ancient Monument and there is much history and detail at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1014577 Canterbury is a small historic city on the River Stour in Kent, some 54 miles southeast of London. Occupied since prehistoric times, it became an important Roman city. In 672, the see of Canterbury gained authority over the entire English Church. After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine until the Dissolution. Today, Canterbury is a popular tourist destination and one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom. The city has a substantial student population, with four university campuses.

An information board about the conduit house seen at Image Canterbury is a small historic city on the River Stour in Kent, some 54 miles southeast of London. Occupied since prehistoric times, it became an important Roman city. In 672, the see of Canterbury gained authority over the entire English Church. After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine until the Dissolution. Today, Canterbury is a popular tourist destination and one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom. The city has a substantial student population, with four university campuses.

Situated off King's Park. Belonging to English Heritage, this site is neglected and overgrown so that not much is still visible. It dates from the mid-12th century. A roughly octagonal masonry tank is now divided by an 18th century chalk and brick wall. Four tunnelled openings and three smaller ducts, which collect water from springs, lead into the tank. Water was delivered from here to the abbey by a lead pipe running from the western side of the structure. The pipe may have led to a water tower at the abbey, which would have fed smaller tanks in the kitchen, infirmary and other parts of the monastic complex.

This structure is of late C12 origin and is not what one expects to find just off a select close in a Canterbury suburb. It is situated at the point where several streams at the boundary of the Thanet Sands and Chalk join up after being channelled through the four conduits seen here. Their waters then descended by gravity to St Augustine’s Abbey at the foot of the hill. See http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/conduit-house/history/ for further details.

Seen as a footpath emerges into the street.