Geoffrey Chaucer · 1392 · overland

Geoffrey Chaucer's late-14th-century poem. A company of pilgrims - knight, miller, wife, pardoner and more - gathers at the Tabard Inn in Southwark and rides the old road to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury, each telling tales to pass the miles through Greenwich, Rochester and Sittingbourne. The stories, bawdy to devout, make a portrait of a whole society on the move.

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   Southwark (Tabard Inn)

   Pilgrims gather at the Tabard Inn to ride to Canterbury together.

2. 2
   Greenwich

   Knight, Miller and Wife of Bath spin tales along the Kent road.

3. 3
   Dartford

   The company rests at this Watling Street market town as the stories roll on.

4. 4
   Rochester

   Bawdy comedy and moral fable trade places as the journey rolls on.

5. 5
   Sittingbourne

   The Friar and Summoner trade barbed tales before reaching Sittingbourne.

6. 6
   Boughton-under-Blean

   A canon and his yeoman join the company near the road's end.

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   Canterbury

   The pilgrims near Becket's shrine, their tales still unfinished.