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The history of Chester extends back nearly two millennia, covering all periods of British history in between then and the present day. The city of Chester was founded as a fort, known as Deva Vitrix, by the Romans in AD 70s, as early as AD 74 based on discovered lead pipes. The city was the scene of battles between warring Welsh and Saxon ...
The siege of Chester occurred over a 16-month period between September 1644 and February 1646 during the First English Civil War. In the engagement, Sir William Brereton and the Parliamentarians were ultimately successful in taking possession of the city and Royalist garrison commanded by Lord Byron .
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]
The history of Cheshire can be traced back to the Hoxnian Interglacial, between 400,000 and 380,000 years BP. Primitive tools that date to that period have been found. Primitive tools that date to that period have been found.
He spent most of his last years in Chester, with occasional visits back to Ireland. In 1579 he was given a knighthood, and appointed Master of Requests. The Queen sent one of her own physicians to treat him. [13] By 1580 it was clear that he could not live long, and the Queen gave him permission to retire to Chester.
The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as well as ordinary railway objectives. Its construction was hugely expensive, chiefly due to the cost of building the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait .
Initial folio of De laude Cestrie. De laude Cestrie ("On the Glory of Chester" [1]), also known as Liber Luciani de laude Cestrie ("The Book of Lucian in Praise of Chester" [2] [nb 1]), is a medieval English manuscript in Latin by Lucian of Chester, probably a monk at the Benedictine Abbey of St Werburgh in Chester.
Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the ... Cathedral Library", Cheshire History, vol. 49, Chester: ... of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland;