Lots of people

Nearly half of England's 49 million population is in the south of England. Most people live in London and the area around it (the South-East), because that is where most of the jobs are based.

Kent is called the Garden of England, because a lot of fruit is grown there. Canterbury Cathedral in Kent is the home of the Archbishop of the Church of England. A fourteenth-century poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to the town.

Michael Vaughan-Rees, Geraldine Sweeney, Picot Cassidy: In Britain; Cornelsen Verlag, 2000, page 80