Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
There is nowhere lovelier
Popular and lesser-known green spaces in Canterbury are explored and celebrated in a new book by award-winning local author Martyn Barr.
Called No Lovelier Place, it has been sponsored by Whitefriars shopping centre as part of its contribution towards Canterbury in Bloom 2016. Every school in the city will receive a free copy.
The book takes its title from a letter written by Virginia Woolf to her sister in 1904, which stated: “There is no lovelier place in the world than Canterbury – that I say with hand on my heart as I sit in Florence – and I have seen Venice too.”
Martyn, a PR consultant from Blean, right, said: “I set myself three rules when researching this book. Any headlined space had to have greenery in it, you had to be able to sit down and perhaps enjoy a picnic there and it had to be within a 15-minute walk of the Cathedral.”
The 68-page softback book costs £5.99 from OOTBSHOP. co.uk, the Canterbury Cathedral shop and other city centre outlets.