Chester
Chester is a very pretty and historic English city on the river Dee, and the county town of the North-Western county of Cheshire. Although maybe not worth a whole holiday, it's well worth a day or overnight trip to see the Roman ruins and medieval city centre.Photo: Crashlanded, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 119,000 residents
- Description: city in Cheshire, England
- Postal codes: CH1 and CH4
Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Chester Cathedral
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester.
Chester Railway Station
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Chester railway station is located in Newtown, Chester, England.
Chester Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Chester Castle is in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England.
Localities in the Area
Saltney
Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saltney is a town straddling the counties of Flintshire and Cheshire on the England–Wales border.
Abbot's Meads
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Abbot's Meads is a suburb of Chester in Cheshire, England.
Chester
- Categories: county town, unparished area and locality
- Location: Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.1909° or 53° 11' 27" northLongitude
-2.8909° or 2° 53' 27" westPopulation
119,000Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)Open Location Code
9C5V54R5+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 8087537OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2653228Wikidata ID
Q170263Chester Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Amharic: ቸስተር
- Arabic: Chester
- Arabic: تشستر
- Armenian: Չեստեր
- Asturian: Chester
- Azerbaijani: Çester
- Basque: Chester
- Belarusian: Чэстэр
- Bengali: চেষ্টার
- Bengali: চেস্টার
- Breton: Chester
- Bulgarian: Честър
- Burmese: ချက်စတာမြို့
- Catalan: Chester
- Cebuano: Chester (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)
- Cebuano: Chester
- Central Kurdish: جێستەر
- Chinese: 切斯特
- Chinese: 車士打
- Cornish: Kardeva
- Czech: Chester
- Danish: Chester
- Dimli (individual language): Chester, İngıltere
- Dutch: Chester
- Egyptian Arabic: تشستر
- Egyptian Arabic: تشيستر
- English: Chester, Cheshire
- English: Chester, England
- Esperanto: Chester
- Esperanto: Ĉestro
- Estonian: Chester
- Finnish: Chester
- French: Chester
- French: Deva Victrix
- Galician: Chester
- Georgian: ჩესტერი
- German: Caer
- German: Chester
- Greek: Τσέστερ, Αγγλία
- Greek: Τσέστερ, Τσέσαϊρ
- Greek: Τσέστερ
- Gujarati: ચેસ્ટર
- Hebrew: צ'סטר
- Hebrew: צסטר
- Hindi: चेस्टर
- Hungarian: Chester
- Icelandic: Chester
- Indonesian: Chester
- Irish: Chester
- Italian: Chester
- Japanese: チェスター
- Kannada: ಚೆಸ್ಟರ್
- Korean: 체스터
- Kurdish: Chester
- Ladin: Chester
- Latin (Historic): Deva
- Latin: Cestria
- Latin: Deva
- Latin: Deva Victrix
- Latvian: Čestera
- Lithuanian: Chester
- Lithuanian: Česteris
- Livvi: Caer
- Lombard: Chester
- Luxembourgish: Chester
- Malay: Chester
- Manipuri: ꯆꯦꯁꯇꯔ
- Manx: Chester
- Manx: Yn Chaayr
- Manx: Yn Çhaayr
- Marathi: चेस्टर
- Mazanderani: چستر
- Mongolian: ꯆꯦꯁꯇꯔ
- Northern Frisian: Chester
- Norwegian: Chester
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chester
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chester
- Occitan (post 1500): Chester
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ceaster
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Legeceaster
- Ossetian: Честер
- Persian: چستر
- Polish: Chester
- Portuguese: Chester
- Quechua: Chester
- Romanian: Chester
- Russian: Честер
- Scots: Chester
- Scottish Gaelic: Chester
- Serbian: Chester
- Serbian: Čester
- Serbian: Честер
- Serbo-Croatian: Chester
- Serbo-Croatian: Čester
- Silesian: Chester
- Sinhala: චෙස්ටර්
- Slovenian: Chester
- Spanish: Chester
- Swedish: Chester
- Tamil: செஸ்டர்
- Tatar: Честер
- Telugu: చెస్టర్
- Thai: เชสเตอร์
- Turkish: Chester
- Ukrainian: Честер
- Urdu: چیسٹر
- Vietnamese: Chester
- Volapük: Chester
- Waray (Philippines): Chester
- Welsh: Caer
- Welsh: Caerllion
- Welsh: Caerllion Fawr
- Western Panjabi: چیسٹر
- Wu Chinese: 切斯特
- Yue Chinese: 車士打
Other Places Named Chester
In the Area
- HandbridgeSuburb
- Northgate VillageSuburb
- Hough GreenSuburb
- HooleSuburb
- NewtonSuburb
- Boughton HeathSuburb
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