Places to explore near Chester StationChester

Ornate 1899 clock on Chester's Eastgate, said to be one of the most photographed clocks in England after Big Ben.

0.9 km SW

Red-sandstone cathedral founded as a Benedictine abbey in 1092, with fine medieval choir stalls, a cloister and a tower you can climb.

0.9 km SW

Roman walled city on the Dee whose two-tier medieval Rows, black-and-white shopfronts and cathedral make it one of England's best-preserved historic centres.

0.9 km SW · Cheshire

Unique medieval two-tier shopping galleries lining Chester's four main streets, timbered walkways above the street-level shops.

1.1 km SW

The most complete circuit of Roman and medieval walls of any English city, a two-mile walkway around Chester's heart.

1.6 km SW

Walk the outline of a whole nation — 870 miles of cliff, estuary and beach from Chepstow round to Queensferry.

3.1 km SW · spans 16 counties

Cheshire village pub between Chester and Wrexham, an olive best country pub.

5.8 km E

Telford's dead-straight last great canal, running embankment-and-cutting from the Black Country to the Mersey at Ellesmere Port.

0.5 km SE · Cheshire, Staffordshire & Shropshire

A river from Llyn Tegid in Eryri through the Vale of Llangollen and Chester to a wide estuary on the Irish Sea.

0.6 km SE · spans 5 counties

Handsome Grosvenor-estate pub in Aldford with a conservatory and big garden near the Dee.

7.7 km S

Trim Grosvenor-estate village of matching brick cottages near Eaton Hall, with a Victorian church and an iron bridge over the Dee.

7.9 km S · Cheshire