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4 Stars - 109 Opinions
1 Stone Place, Hoole, Chester, CH2 3NR, United Kingdom
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Eastgate, looking west on a Saturday afternoon
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Chester is a great place to visit with friends.
We've enjoyed visiting with Steve and Susan in 2002 and glad they returned in 2003 with sabs in tow too.
Here they are watching the antics of a canal boat getting through the Telfod Northgate Locks.
Coffee Republic is a chain of coffee places - a bit like the British version of Starbucks but (only a little bit) cheaper. As I don't drink coffee I normally don't go to these places. Coffee Republic had some tasty snacks though so I had a cold drink and a chicken and pepper toastie which was really tasty (and really expensive unfortunately!).
Chester City walls date mainly from Medieval times and form an almost complete circle around the City of Chester - the only complete city walls in Britain. The interesting history of the walls and its special features is told on numerous information plaques as you walk round. The roman walls were defended by 4 fortified gateways and 26 towers. It was in the 18th century that the walls became a fashionable promenade with the gateways being replaced with elegant arches. Today access to the walls can be made at any of the gates and at various other points around their circuit. There are wheelchair access points at the junction of Castle Drive and Grosvenor Street, County Hall entrance, the corner of Duke Street and Park Street, the Bell Tower, and Watergate Bridge.
The Abbey Gateway is the original entrance to St Werburgh's Abbey linking Northgate Street with Abbey square. The Gateway dates mostly from the 14th Century with some 18th Century additions and fine stone bosses beneath the vaulted roof.
The Romans started building a stone wall around Chester between 90 and 120 AD. To defend the city from the Vikings the Saxons later placed the walls to where they are now.
In the Civil way they were heavily destroyed by cannon fire and after they were repaired in the 18th century they were turned into the 2 mile promenade they are now.
The walk along the walls makes you see almost the whole city. The views aren't as beautiful as in Britain's other walled city - York - though.
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