Visit Chester and Cheshire

Visit Chester and Cheshire

Cheshire's Rural Escapes are not far away

Cheshire's Rural Escapes are not far away

  • Dinosaurs Bite Back 
    Chester Zoological Gardens 
    4th April 2012 - 4th November 2012 

    The dinosaurs are back at Chester Zoo and they are even bigger and louder ....

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  • Chester History Hunter Walking Tour 
    Town Hall Visitor Information Centre, Chester 

    Enjoy the Best of Chester with this daily walking tour ....

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  • Just One Look at 1960s Chester 
    Chester History and Heritage 
    2nd April 2012 - 29th June 2012 

    Welcome to Chester fifty years ago, a time of destruction and construction in the city ....

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  • Olympic Posters 
    Grosvenor Museum 
    7th April 2012 - 17th June 2012 

    View the complete set of official Summer Olympic posters, from the Olympic Foundation in Lausanne ....

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  • Toxteth 1981 
    International Slavery Museum 
    1st July 2011 - 1st July 2012 

    A community exhibition to mark the 30th anniversary in July 2011 of the riots in Liverpool 8 ....

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  • Spellbound Forest  
    Delamere Forest 
    19th May 2012 - 20th May 2012 

    An enchanting day out as we invite a family audience to follow the paths in Delamere Forest, each telling the story ....

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Capenhurst

The Urenco site employs over 300 people and provides the local community with long-term employment in a technical environment, as well as opportunities for young people to pursue engineering and scientific careers.

In 1999 the journalist Duncan Campbell published claims that a 50m high tower on the premises of the uranium enrichment plant had been used to phone-tap calls transmitted between the BT towers at Gwaenysgor and Pale Heights, near Chester.

Campbell claimed that the interception was conducted by GCHQ, initially from a temporary installation on the roof of the plant until commissioning of the tower in 1990. The tower was demolished in 2004.

Close to Capenhurst is the Blue Planet Aquarium, the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port, Chester Zoo and the Ness Botanic Gardens.

Cheshire Best Kept Stations is supported by Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire East, Cheshire Crimebeat, Visit Chester and Cheshire, Northern Rail, Vigin Trains and Roberts Bakery