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Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England, on the River Dee, close to the England-Wales border.With a built-up area population of 92,760 in 2021, [1] it is the most populous settlement of Cheshire West and Chester (which had a population of 357,150 in 2021). [5]
Chester Cross from the south, showing St Peter's Church The town crier on Chester High Cross. Chester Cross is a junction of streets at the centre of the city of Chester, Cheshire, England (grid reference. The streets meeting at the junction are Watergate Street, Eastgate Street, Bridge Street and Northgate Street.
Eastgate is a permanently open gate through the Chester city walls, on the site of the original entrance to the Roman fortress of Deva Victrix in Chester, Cheshire, England. It is a prominent landmark in the city of Chester and the Eastgate clock on top of it is said to be the most photographed clock in England after Big Ben .
The A56 is a road in England which extends between the city of Chester in Cheshire and the village of Broughton in North Yorkshire.The road contains a mixture of single and dual carriageway sections, and traverses environments as diverse as the dense urban sprawl of inner city Manchester and the lightly populated region of rural east Lancashire.
This is a list of places within the ceremonial county boundaries of Cheshire, in North West England. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( August 2008 )
The 32-acre (130,000 m 2) Parkgate Road Campus, Chester, [16] is located on Parkgate Road, just north of the City Walls. It has a mixture of Victorian buildings (such as Old College, which includes a chapel built by some of the original students in the 1840s) and modern buildings (such as the Students' Union ).
Following the abolition of the County Council in March 2009, the new unitary authority, Cheshire West and Chester Council chose to occupy a modern building on the site of a former police headquarters and overlooking the Chester Racecourse. [6] [7] [8] County Hall became surplus to requirements and was sold to the University of Chester for £10. ...
On 7 July 2010 it was announced that Chester Rows were being considered as an applicant for the new United Kingdom Tentative List for World Heritage status by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. [46] This was a campaign pledge by local MP Samantha Dixon in her campaign in the 2022 City of Chester by-election. [47]