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The Step Into Spring Festival of Walking returns to Canterbury as part of this year’s Canterbury Festival

By: Sam Lawrie slawrie@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 05:00, 27 March 2024

Updated: 13:53, 27 March 2024

A series of walks, including hair-raising ghost tours and colourful art trails, are set to showcase one of Kent’s most historic locations.

The Step Into Spring Festival of Walking returns this April to help raise funds for the Canterbury Festival, a multi-arts event that takes place in the city later this year.

The walking tours at the Step Into Spring Festival take visitors past some of Canterbury’s most historic spots. Picture: Canterbury Festival

The walking festival includes a number of different routes focusing on the history, art and wildlife in and around Canterbury.

Follow in the footsteps of two of England’s most prolific writers, Christopher Marlowe and Geoffrey Chaucer, and stand in the same spots as royal visitors such as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

Fans of the supernatural can join expert tour guide John Hippisley on a ghost hunt, visiting some of Canterbury’s spookiest nooks and crannies after dark, while art lovers can discover the public artwork dotted around the city.

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Award-winning ghost hunter John Hippisley will thrill-seekers to Canterbury’s most ghoulish haunts. Picture: Canterbury Festival

There’s also plenty of wildlife to enjoy around the outskirts of Canterbury, with a stroll through the historic Old Park and a guided tour of Wildwood, a wildlife park in Herne Common that has successfully rewilded bison to the nearby Blean Woods.

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Walks take place from Friday, April 5 to Sunday, April 7. Tickets for all walks are £14 and can be booked online here.

You can also book tickets by calling the Canterbury Festival box office on 01227 457568.

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