Short answers, pulled from the story.
Canterbury is a cathedral city in the county of Kent, England, lying on the River Stour about 55 miles east-southeast of London. As of 2011 its population was over 55,000, and the 2021 census recorded 55,087.
Canterbury Cathedral is the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion and the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Founded in 597 AD by Augustine, it forms a World Heritage Site alongside St Martin's Church and the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey, and it receives a million visitors a year.
Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, after which pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine. In 1538 Henry VIII demolished the shrine, removed its gold, silver, and jewels to the Tower of London, and ended the pilgrimages.
The Canterbury Scene was a cluster of progressive rock, avant-garde, and jazz musicians that emerged in the city in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Its members included Soft Machine, Caravan, Matching Mole, Egg, and Hatfield and the North.
King's School in Canterbury is the oldest secondary school in the United Kingdom. St Augustine established it shortly after his arrival in 597, and it took its present name in honour of Henry VIII after the dissolution of the monasteries.
Canterbury West and Canterbury East stations have no direct interchange because the two railways into the city were built by rival companies. The London, Chatham and Dover Railway arrived in 1860, competing with the earlier South Eastern Railway line.
Huguenot refugees introduced silk weaving to Canterbury, which had outstripped wool weaving by 1676. By the 17th century, French-speaking Huguenots made up two-fifths of the city's population and used the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral as their church.