Canterbury Field Trip

Canterbury Field Trip

Canterbury is situated in the south east of England in the middle of

Kent. It is connected to all main towns around by main roads (started

by the Romans nearly 2000 years before) and is the centre of trade and

shopping for the southeast.

East Kent

On the Friday 5th October I took part in a geography field trip to

Canterbury.

On the day of our field trip the weather was a little over cast with

occasional drizzle but not enough to hopefully have put shoppers off.

The first day that we went to Canterbury was a market day.

The second day that I went to Canterbury to carry out more surveys and

to obtain information on shops etc. was a bright but chilly day.

Canterbury is steeped in history, the first recorded settlement in

Canterbury dates back to the fourth century BC when it was inhabited

by the Cantiaci tribe.

Since this time Canterbury's owner ship and role as a city has changed

many times.

The original settlement was built at the lowest point of the river

Stour, North and West of Canterbury the ground rises quickly to over

200 feet to a plateau of heavy clay that was covered by the dense

forest of blean. To the south and East of the city the ground consist

mainly of chalk but is covered by a top layer of fertile soils, here

the ground rises less steeply.

Canterbury first started out not only as the lowest river crossing

point but also as a crossroads leading from the fertile lands to the

east and the rest of England.

The first big change in control of Canterbury came during the Roman

invasion in 54AD when Juleus Ceaser stormed the hill top fort at

Bigbury (the areas natural...

... middle of paper ...

... slightly bias as Saturday is a very busy

shopping day due to schools being off and is slightly unfair to

compare to a school day, but unfortunately due to myself having to be

at school I couldn't get around this. If I did this work again I would

try and study another weekday that was not a market day so as to be

able to compare more fairly with the market day. Doing this may also

help show more patterns for shopping habits, e.g. more people may shop

for one thing on a certain day.

I would also try and find day were the weather was roughly the same

standard as with the weather conditions being as they were the Friday

was not a nice day to be out and about, if the weather was the same on

two days it would give a fair representation of data as peoples

preference towards going out would not be altered by the conditions.