Canterbury

Hiking routes around Canterbury

23 waymarked hiking routes run within 15 km of Canterbury: 2 international, 2 national, 6 regional and 13 local.

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Around Canterbury

4 national and international routes pass within 15 km, among them North Downs Way (254 km). England Coast Path passes through Canterbury: 60 sections with 2,408 km mapped in all, 39 km of them within 15 km. Via Francigena passes through Canterbury: 49 sections with 3,180 km mapped in all, 17 km of them within 15 km. Saxon Shore Way has more of its length here than any other route: 52 km within 15 km, of 262 km from Gravesend to Hastings. Regional routes account for the largest share: 209 of the 450 km of waymarked route within 15 km. Most of the 13 local routes are short walks: 8 of them are under 10 km. Operators named on the routes listed here include National Trails and White Cliffs Countryside Project.

The routes with most of their length within 15 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
  • Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
  • Lengths within 15 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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