Welcome to Chester Trail
"One of a series of friendly trails written and illustrated during lockdown by the team here at the Visitor Information Centre to give you a warm welcome to our much-loved City of Chester”
Let’s start with Welcome. Welcome to our wonderful city and its colourful (and black & white…) history.
Chester's history often is not neat and tidy. You are in a city where Roman, Medieval, Tudor, Stuart, Georgian & Victorian influences jostle for position along streets nearly 2000 years old - sometimes these influences happily rub shoulders in the same building. This short guide really mixes it up, but we hope that at the end of your walk you will have a little more of an understanding of how the largest fortress in Roman Britain became the city we know and love, spending several hundred years as one of the most important ports on the west coast along the way.
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Chester Visitor Information Centre
Chester Visitor Information Centre is located in the heart of the city at The Town Hall.
Women of Chester Guided Walk
Walk in the footsteps of Chester's amazing women. Join one of our local guides on a walk through the city streets and nearly 2,000 years of history.
Chester Family Tour
Marvel at buildings and monuments that have been standing for centuries as you undertake an interactive tour through two thousand years of history in just sixty minutes.
Tudor & Stuart Guided Walk
Join bricklayer Myles Mason on a tour of Chester in the year of our lord, 1603.