Chester
Worth seeing in and around Chester
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 10St Peter's Church, Chester
Grade I listed church in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
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Getting to Chester
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 16 km · Manchester (MAN), 44 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 111 km
- Stations
- Chester railway station, 1.1 km · Hawarden Airport, 5.9 km · Bache railway station, 1.9 km · Saltney Ferry railway station, 3.8 km · Balderton railway station, 4.9 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Chester54 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Chester112 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–16
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Chester119 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £13–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chester
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chester. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inManchester – Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road every 30 minutes, taking just over an hour via Warrington and Runcorn, and continuing along the Welsh coast to Holyhead (for Dublin ferries).
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Next door to Chester
Chester is 24 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Saltneytown on the England–Wales border with the west part lying in Flintshire, Wales, and the eastern part in Cheshire, England2.4 km
- Mollingtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England4.5 km
- Wavertonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England5.5 km
- Littletonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK3.5 km
- Cheshire West and Chesterunitary authority area with borough status in England2.6 km
- Guilden Suttonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK4.7 km