Tourist Information Centres are at the town hall and at Chester Visitor Centre.

* Chester and Area Visitor Information Centre

Category: Visitor attractions in Chester County, Pennsylvania

O ' Regan has served on the Faculties of Columbia University as a Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellow, The Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University as a Radcliffe Fellow, Yale University, Trinity College in the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as Director's Visitor.

* The Guy Chester Centre of the Methodist church

The city has many chain stores, and also features an indoor market, a department store ( Browns of Chester, now absorbed by the Debenhams chain ), and two main indoor shopping centres: The Grosvenor Shopping Centre and the Forum ( a reference to the City's Roman past ).

In 2006 ground was broken for The Square at Union Centre which will serve as the town square for West Chester hosting events surrounded by class A office space and restaurants.

* Chester and Area Family Resource Centre

The settlement was located on a major Roman road between Chester and Wroxeter and Roman artefacts can be seen at the Whitchurch Heritage Centre.

As an artist-in-residence, he has stayed at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA ( 1993 ), at the Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, USA ( 1994 ), and at the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan ( 2002 ).

It has witnessed redevelopment in the form of the construction of the Fort Shopping Centre and the Heartlands Spine Road which connects the A47 Nechells to the A47 Chester Road.

Pennsylvania Dutch Country encompasses the counties of Chester, Lancaster, York, Adams, Franklin, Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks, Montgomery, Bucks, Northampton, Lehigh, Schuylkill, Snyder, Union, Juniata, Mifflin, Huntingdon, Northumberland, and Centre.

Ondaatje is a prominent philanthropist ; among the institutions he has helped are: The National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Geographical Society, Somerset County Cricket Club, Blundell's School, The Sir Christopher Ondaatje Devon Cricket Centre at Exeter University, Lakefield College School, Dalhousie University, the National Ballet School, the Royal Ontario Museum ( the Sir Christopher Ondaatje South Asian Gallery ), Massey College in the University of Toronto, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Chester Playhouse.

The population of the village has expanded considerably in recent years and many of the older landmarks have been swept away to make room for new housing and commercial development, attracted by direct access along the B5425 to Wrexham Town Centre, and easy connection to the A483 ( Trunk ) at Pandy, for Chester and the north West of England beyond.

The legacy of Chester Ronning continues today with the Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta's Augustana Campus in Camrose, Alberta.

Hearkening back to Chester Ronning ’ s own legacy of hospitality, the mission of the Centre is to nurture a hospitable context that brings forward the finest thinking of women and men of faith in conversation with public intellectuals.

The Broadwalk Centre used to belong to The Mall Cooperation but was bought along with the Epsom and Chester Malls, which no longer carry Mall branding.

The vast majority of clinics occur at The Walton Centre, but there is also a clinic at Chester and spinal clinics at Whiston and Wigan.

Specially-shot footage included snails from London Zoo, exotic frogs at Chester Zoo, geese at Folly Farm in Gloucestershire, rabbits at Tilgate Park in West Sussex, butterflies in the Butterfly Centre, Eastbourne, hedgehogs supplied by St. Tiggywinkles Animal Hospital and spiders from a private collection.

The Dubhlinn was situated where the Castle Garden is now located, opposite the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle.

A new veterans memorial, dedicated to all veterans who lived in the township ( and present-day Chester Heights prior to 1948 ) from the American Revolution to the present-day Operation Iraqi Freedom, along with Aston Township EMTs, Police, and Firefighters killed in the line of duty, has been built at the same intersection, opposite the former inn site.

In 1900, John Dunlop opened a tyre factory on the opposite side of the Chester Road to where the Castle Vale housing estate now stands and gradually expanded over the next few decades to become one of the largest and most recognisable tyre factories in the world.

Carmichael was born sometime around 1739 at the family home ( Round Top ) in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, on the Chester River just opposite Chestertown.

When the Main Northern Line opened on 17 September 1886, a single platform known as Field of Mars was located on the western side of the line opposite Chester Street.

Paul Draper and Stove King met in the early 1990s, whilst working in the printing industry as photo retouchers for rival companies situated opposite each other on the same industrial park in Little Stanney on the outskirts of Chester.

In early 1995 Draper and King enlisted Maidstone expat Dominic Chad, who was the bar manager at the Fat Cat pub on Watergate Street in Chester opposite the office where Draper would go and see former Grind member Steve Heaton.

A supporter of new American operas, Uppman also created roles in Carlisle Floyd ’ s Passion of Jonathan Wade ( with Phyllis Curtin and Norman Treigle ), Heitor Villa-Lobos's Yerma in 1971, Thomas Pasatieri ’ s Black Widow in 1972, and Leonard Bernstein ’ s A Quiet Place ( opposite Chester Ludgin ).

There is an hourly service ( more at peak times ) running to Manchester via Stockport, and in the opposite direction to Chester.

Then, after collecting reinforcements, they made a sudden dash across England and occupied the ruined Roman walls of Chester.

* A small Roman shrine to Minerva ( the only one still in situ in the UK ) stands in Handbridge, Chester.

In 2010, following archaeological discoveries at the Roman ruins in Chester, some writers suggested that the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the true prototype of the Round Table but the English Heritage Commission, acting as consultants to a History Channel documentary in which the claim was made, declared that there was no archaeological basis to the story.

* Chester is founded as a castrum or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix.

* Chester Roman Amphitheatre, Cheshire

Most old Roman settlements, whether actually inhabited or not, were given the title of chester / caster in Old English ( from the Latin castrum, for ' camp '); the specific names for each may only have little relation to the Roman names ( e. g. modern Chester was actually called Deva by the Romans ).

" The City of the Legion " may be a reference to Caerleon, whose name translates as such, but it might also refer to Chester, the site of a large Roman base.

Roman remains have been found in the valley and it is thought that the roads from York to Chester, and from settlements in Halifax and Wakefield, ran through Cleckheaton and the junction gave rise to a staging post.

Chester was founded as a " castrum " or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix in the year 79 by the Roman Legio II Adiutrix during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian.

Diorama of the Roman Legionary fortress Deva Victrix in Grosvenor Museum, Chester.

The Romans founded Chester as Deva Victrix in the 70s AD in the land of the Celtic Cornovii, according to ancient cartographer Ptolemy, as a fortress during the Roman expansion northward.

Deverdoeu was still one of two Welsh language names for Chester in the late 12th century ; its other and more enduring Welsh name was Caerlleon, literally " the fortress-city of the legions ", a name identical with that of the Roman fortress at the other end of the Welsh Marches at Caerleon in Monmouthshire, namely Isca Augusta.

At the intersection of the former Roman roads is Chester Cross, to the north of which is the small church of St Peter's which is in use as an ecumenical centre.

The major museum in Chester is the Grosvenor Museum which includes a collection of Roman tombstones and an art gallery.

The major museum in Chester is the Grosvenor Museum which includes a collection of Roman tombstones and an art gallery.

During the great Viking invasion of England opposed by Alfred the Great and various other Saxon and Welsh rulers, the Viking chieftain Hastein in late summer 893 marched his men to Chester to occupy the ruined Roman fortress there.

The origins of the settlement date to Roman times when salt from Nantwich was used by the Roman garrisons at Chester ( Deva Victrix ) and Stoke-on-Trent as both a preservative and a condiment.