Category: Travel Writing
THREE are but few places, if indeed there are any, which can present such varied attractions to the antiquary as this remarkable and ancient city. It is rich in memorable incidents and associations. It has a history chronicled not only in books, but in its walls, towers, rows,...
is situated in Flookersbrook, and is the terminus of five different lines of railway—viz., the London and North Western; the Chester and Holyhead; the Chester and Mold; the Birk...
5. CHAPTER V.PREVIOUS to the Roman conquests, the Britons were accustomed to celebrate the rites of Druidism; but as it was the custom of the Romans to carry into the lands they conquered no...
3. CHAPTER III.THE Chester walls are the only perfect specimen of this order of ancient fortification now to be met with in England. There is nothing, perhaps, which impresses a stranger more...
1. CHAPTER I.THREE are but few places, if indeed there are any, which can present such varied attractions to the antiquary as this remarkable and ancient city. It is rich in memorable incide...
4. CHAPTER IV.IT is our purpose now to conduct the tourist through the city, that we may point out, in detail, the various objects of interest which claim his attentive inspection. But before...
6. CHAPTER VI.BEFORE the visitor leaves Chester, we have no doubt he will be induced to visit Eaton Hall, the princely mansion of the Marquis of Westminster, which is situated in a beautiful...
2. CHAPTER II.ALTARS, Roman pavements, pigs of lead, coins, and other precious relics of former times, have been discovered in various places in the city and neighbourhood, some of them withi...