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Cossington Road, CANTERBURY, CT1 3HX

Photographed on the evening of the hottest day of the year to date, at the end of a very hot week at the beginning of September 2023.

As seen from the A2050 Old Dover Road. This line leads from Dover (via various stations including Bekesbourne) towards Canterbury East. In the background is Nunnery Fields roadbridge.

Planning permission has been granted by Canterbury City Council under application number CA/20/02186 for a "three-storey building with a basement, comprising 27 student apartments (including warden's accommodation) with communal facilities including cycle and refuse storage, amenity areas and three 'operational' parking spaces for service/maintenance vehicles, following demolition of the existing dwelling and a garage". Taken during a photographic outing on Christmas Day afternoon.

As the ‘to let’ board indicates, this is student accommodation.

Planning permission has been granted by Canterbury City Council under application number CA//14/01981 for the “demolition of garage, erection of two and one-storey extension at side, extension of second floor rear dormer window”.

The path runs between New Dover Road and Old Dover Road. Abbot’s Barton was the leased, private residence of Francis Bennett-Goldney, Mayor of Canterbury from 1905-10 and Member of Parliament from 1917-18 http://www.machadoink.com/Francis%20Bennett%20Goldney.htm This building was demolished and replaced by one of a similar construction, which can be seen when Image

The Hoystings, number 56 Old Dover Road, is an early 18th century classical house that has been Gothicized in the early 19th century. Constructed of red brick under a tile roof. All the windows, including the dormers, have obtusely pointed heads and Gothic divisions. There is a stuccoed Gothic doorway with cornice and parapet. There is a 19th century extension on the garden side. Now apartments. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1260634 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.