In 1685, 200,000 French Protestants fled to England to escape persecution in Catholic France. Many settled in Canterbury where there was already a French community and a church.
![French Protestant Church of Canterbury](https://www.huguenotsofspitalfields.org/wp-content/uploads/French-Protestant-Church-of-Canterbury-1024x576.jpg)
French Protestant Church of Canterbury. Image courtesy of frenchchurchcanterbury.org.uk/