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Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the Kent at Canterbury stands on a hill about two miles outside the city centre. The name Canterbury derives from the Old English Cantwarebyrig, meaning fortress of the men of Kent. Canterbury was made a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888.
The city is on the River Great Stour, flowing from Ashford to the English Channel at Sandwich, but is currently navigable only on the tidal section from Sandwich to Fordwich, north east of Canterbury.
Canterbury today is a major city for tourism with Canterbury Cathedral alone attracting 1.2 million visitors in 2001. It still contains many ancient buildings and modern building development within the medieval town centre is strictly regulated.
City has two railway stations, Canterbury West and Canterbury East. The services from these are operated by Southeastern.
The city contains the district wards of Barton, Northgate, St Stephens, Westgate and Wincheap, plus part of the University of Kent (which straddles the city boundary) in the otherwise rural Blean Forest ward. Since October7, 2004 the 5 wards entirely within the city have been represented by 9 Liberal Democrat, 3 Conservative and 2 Labour councillors, out of the total 50 members of the district council.
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