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Communities Also Named Canterbury ...

We found 21 communities that share the name Canterbury.

Within Quebec, the name Canterbury is unique.

Beyond Quebec, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 21 communities, one is located in Canada and the other twenty communities are located in  the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Madison County
      • This Canterbury is located in Madison County and lies 1,092 miles [1,757.4 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Canterbury.
    • Connecticut
      • Windham County
      • This Canterbury is located in Windham County and lies 264 miles [424.9 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Windham County community of Canterbury.
    • Delaware
      • Kent County
      • This Canterbury is located in Kent County and lies 495 miles [796.6 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Canterbury.
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This Canterbury is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,348 miles [2,169.4 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Canterbury.
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This Canterbury is located in Baltimore County and lies 498 miles [801.5 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Canterbury.
      • Carroll County
      • This Canterbury is located in Carroll County and lies 503 miles [809.5 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Canterbury.
      • Talbot County
      • This Canterbury is located in Talbot County and lies 527 miles [848.1 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Talbot County community of Canterbury.
      • Wicomico County
      • This Canterbury is located in Wicomico County and lies 535 miles [861 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wicomico County community of Canterbury.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Canterbury lies 189 miles [304.2 km]<1> to the east.
    • New Hampshire
      • Merrimack County
      • This Canterbury is located in Merrimack County and lies 150 miles [241.4 km]<1> to the south.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Merrimack County community of Canterbury.
    • New York
      • Orange County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Orange County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Canterbury.
    • North Carolina
      • Pitt County
      • This Canterbury is located in Pitt County and lies 756 miles [1,216.7 km]<1> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pitt County community of Canterbury.
    • Ohio
      • Clark County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Canterbury [Clark County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • York County
      • This Canterbury is located in York County and lies 467 miles [751.6 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Canterbury.
    • South Carolina
      • Cherokee County
      • This Canterbury is located in Cherokee County and lies 900 miles [1,448.4 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Canterbury.
      • Greenville County
      • This Canterbury is located in Greenville County and lies 945 miles [1,520.8 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Canterbury.
      • Greenwood County
      • This Canterbury is located in Greenwood County and lies 965 miles [1,553 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenwood County community of Canterbury.
    • Virginia
      • Culpeper County
      • This Canterbury is located in Culpeper County and lies 597 miles [960.8 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Culpeper County community of Canterbury.
      • Henrico County
      • This Canterbury is located in Henrico County and lies 633 miles [1,018.7 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henrico County community of Canterbury.
      • Montgomery County
      • This Canterbury is located in Montgomery County and lies 744 miles [1,197.4 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Canterbury.
    • West Virginia
      • Mingo County
      • This Canterbury is located in Mingo County and lies 772 miles [1,242.4 km]<1> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mingo County community of Canterbury.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Canterbury ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Bury
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bury came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bury
  • Dell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dell came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dell
  • Dudswell
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dudswell came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudswell
  • Dudswell Jonction
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dudswell Jonction came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudswell Jonction
  • Hall
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hall came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall
  • Herringville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Herringville came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herringville
  • Island Brook
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Island Brook came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Brook
  • Learned Plain
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Learned Plain came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Learned Plain
  • New Mexico
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Mexico came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Mexico
  • Scotstown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)

How Far From Canterbury to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Canterbury to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Canterbury and extending to:

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 210 miles [338 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Canterbury to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,395 miles [8,682.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,116 miles [9,842.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 3,991 miles [6,422.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

The official website for Province of Quebec: https://www.quebec.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Canterbury) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Canterbury. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5061, Longitude: -71.3503    
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Canterbury, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Canterbury could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<4>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<5>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<6>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Canterbury to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 303.643 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.736 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 299.036 degrees.




 

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