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Chester Castle

Chester Castle is in the city of , Cheshire, England. It is sited at the southwest extremity of the area bounded by the city walls. The castle stands on an eminence overlooking the .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chester Cathedral and Chester Railway Station.

Church
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is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester. It is located in the city of , , .

Railway station
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serves the city of , in , England; it is sited in the Newtown area. It was designed by the architect Francis Thompson and opened as a joint station in 1848.

Stadium
is an association football stadium which is the home of Chester F.C., the effective successor club to the liquidated Chester City. The stadium straddles the England–Wales border at , on the outskirts of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chester and Saltney.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a very pretty and historic city on the river Dee, and the county town of the North-Western county of . 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.

Suburb
Photo: Dennis Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town straddling the counties of and on the England–Wales border. The local government community of lies entirely in Wales, while the English areas are unparished.

Suburb
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Abbot's Meads is a suburb of in , England. Abbot's Meads is north-west of Chester city centre. The is nearby. The population as taken in the 2011 census can be found under .

Chester Castle

Latitude
53.1853° or 53° 11′ 7″ north
Longitude
-2.8924° or 2° 53′ 33″ west
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
Open location code
9C5V54P5+42
Open­Street­Map ID
way 117807870
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
7294217
Wiki­data ID
Q505858
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Chester Castle” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Chester Castle (kastilyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Chester Castle”
  • Chinese: “切斯特城堡”
  • Danish: “Chester Castle”
  • Dutch: “Chester Castle”
  • Finnish: “Chesterin linna”
  • French: “château de Chester”
  • French: “Château de Chester”
  • German: “Chester Castle”
  • Hebrew: “טירת צ’סטר”
  • Italian: “Castello di Chester”
  • Italian: “Chester Castle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chester Castle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chester slott”
  • Norwegian: “Chester Castle”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Chester”
  • Russian: “Честерский замок”
  • Swedish: “Chester Castle (slott)”
  • Swedish: “Chester Castle”
  • Welsh: “Castell Caer”

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