The City
of Chester, in the North West of
England, is the
county town of Cheshire. Situated on the River Dee and on
the border
with Wales, Chester is one of the best-preserved medieval
walled cities in the United Kingdom.
The River
Dee is 70 miles long. It travels through Wales and England
and also forms
part of the border between them. The river rises in Snowdonia,
Wales, flows north via Chester, England, and discharges to
the sea into an estuary between
Wales and The Wirral Peninsula.
Navigable
section - Holt and Farndon, where the river crosses from
Wales into England
under
a medieval
bridge, to the weir in Chester.
Just below the weir in Chester is
The Old Dee Bridge, a road bridge and by far the oldest bridge
in Chester, being built
in about
1387
on
the
site
of a series of wooden predecessors which dated originally
from the Roman period.
There are
commercial pleasure trips on the river ranging from 30 minutes
to a couple of hours if you haven't got a full day to spare.