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A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, the City of Chester: General History and Topography. This is the first of two volumes providing an authoritative and detailed treatment of Chester's history, meticulously researched from the original sources. Victoria County History - Chester.
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CHESTER AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Throughout the later 1930s...
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ROMAN CHESTER First roman contacts and the establishment of...
- The Economy, 1871-1914, The Limits of Reorientation
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- Late Georgian and Victorian Chester 1762-1914
The inns and hotels continued to derive trade from Chester's...
- Economy and Society, 1350-1550
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The king's son Edward was created prince of Wales and earl...
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A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 1, the...
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- Defining Chester
- Name and Situation
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- Chester and The Grosvenors
- Chester's Wider Cultural Connexions
- The Character of Chester
Until the 19th century what was meant by 'Chester'was unproblematic. The Roman fortress with itsadjacent civilian settlement was succeeded in theearly Middle Ages by a small fortified town on thesame site. Probably in the 10th century two sides of theRoman walls were abandoned, and by the early 12thcentury the circuit of walls had reached its moder...
The Roman name for the fortress built at the head ofthe Dee estuary was Deva, adopted directly from theBritish name of the river, and 'Deverdoeu' was still oneof two alternative Welsh names for Chester in the late12th century. Its other and more enduring Welsh namewas Caerlleon, literally 'the fortress-city of the legions',a name identical with tha...
Chester was for many centuries the most importantplace by far in north-western England. That was largelydue to its location at the crossroads of the British Isles,where routes from southern Britain led into northWales and the Irish Sea. On three occasions its roleas the point of entry into the Irish Sea region for rulersbased in the South made it p...
Chester had no patron from the later Middle Agesonwards to match the Roman army, the 10th-centuryWest Saxon kings, or Edward I, all of whom had putthe city at the centre of national affairs. From the 17thcentury it did, however, have the Grosvenors. Seated atEaton from the earlier 15th century, (fn. 14) holder of abaronetcy from 1622 and a peerage ...
Although Chester has had close links with Wales andIreland at nearly every period, its wider cultural linkshave always been rather meagre. There seems not to havebeen a Jewish community in the Middle Ages. Manxmensettled in Chester from the later Middle Ages, and a fewSpanish merchants visited in the 16th century. Negligible numbers of displaced pe...
Roman Chester is most plausibly represented and bestunderstood as a military depot consisting of a walledfortress with a number of important extramural buildings, notably the amphitheatre, and an attendantcivilian settlement. Archaeological investigations haverevealed more about the fortress than about the townwhich served it. (fn. 28)There were lo...
Sep 30, 2024 · A History of the County of Chester: Volume 5 Part 2, the City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions Part 2 of the volume details thematically with the economic, cultural and religious institutions of the city, as well as its local government and public services.
The history of Chester extends back nearly two millennia, covering all periods of British history in between then and the present day. The city of Chester was founded as a fort, known as Deva Vitrix, by the Romans in AD 70s, as early as AD 74 based on discovered lead pipes.
Chester was now the county town of Cheshire and elegant new houses and terraces were built to house the wealthy merchants of the city. During Victorian times the magnificent gothic-style Town Hall was built and the Eastgate Clock was erected in honour of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
In 1506 the city of Chester was constituted a county of itself by a charter of Henry VII., which was rescinded in 1660, but restored by Charles II. in 1664. It is divided into five wards, and the corporation consists of a mayor, recorder, sheriff, 24 aldermen, and 20 common councilmen.
Most of what is now the modern county of Cheshire formed part of the Welsh kingdom of Powys, ruled by the descendants of Cadell, while its north-eastern borders met with those of Elmet and the emerging Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
