What did Canterbury used to be called?
The British and Latin name survived as the medieval Latin placename Dorobernia or Dorovernia, but the town also became known in Old Welsh as Cair Ceint (Fortress of Kent) and in Old English as Cantwareburh (Kentish Stronghold), which developed into the modern Canterbury. Canterbury Name Meaning English (Dorset): habitational name from Canterbury in Kent, named in Old English as Cantwaraburg ‘fortified town (burgh) of the people (wara) of Kent’.