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Chester
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Chester is best known for its complete city walls, the Roman fortress of Deva, the medieval Rows shopping galleries and its racecourse.
Postcode districts: CH1, CH2, CH3
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Chester was founded by the Romans as the fortress of Deva and preserves the most complete circuit of Roman and medieval city walls in Britain, which you can still walk. Its unique two-tiered medieval galleried shopping streets — the Rows — are found nowhere else in the world, and it has a fine cathedral and one of the country's oldest racecourses, the Roodee. On the River Dee near the Welsh border, Chester is an affluent tourist and shopping city with a strong rental market.
Source notes: Summarised from Wikipedia ("Chester", Wikidata Q7972 region; Q661 region; Q660201 region; Q184577) and Cheshire West and Chester Council information.
Page prepared 2026-11-07. Figures come from the official sources named on each card; where we don't have reliable data we say so.