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Walk Chester in 1600

AI rebuilds Chester street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.

Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk

Tudor Chester, 1600

Chester in 1600 is a prosperous walled market city and river port whose Roman street plan still orders life. Walkers will see the famous two-tier Rows of timber-framed shops, the cathedral that was once the Benedictine abbey, the complete circuit of medieval and Roman walls with the projecting Water Tower, and the Roodee race-meadow by the Dee.

33 scenes — 21 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Chester as it stood in 1600 (“History of Chester”).

The route, scene by scene

  1. 1. The Roodee
  2. 2. Old Dee Bridge
  3. 3. Lower Bridge Street
  4. 4. Bridge Street Rows
  5. ↳ Upper Row Draper's Shop · interior
  6. ↳ Row Shoemaker's Workshop · interior
  7. 5. The High Cross
  8. 6. Eastgate Row
  9. ↳ Wool Stapler's Counting House · interior
  10. 7. Eastgate Tower
  11. 8. Cathedral Close
  12. ↳ Monastic Cloister · interior
  13. 9. Chester Cathedral Front
  14. ↳ Cathedral Quire · interior
  15. 10. Northgate Street
  16. 11. Northgate Rows
  17. ↳ Mercer's Counting House · interior
  18. 12. Watergate Street
  19. ↳ Watergate Alehouse · interior
  20. 13. Watergate and Quayside
  21. 14. The Water Tower
  22. ↳ Port Watch Chamber · interior
  23. 15. Northwest Walls
  24. 16. Roman Amphitheatre
  25. ↳ Amphitheatre Arena · interior
  26. 17. Chester Castle
  27. ↳ Castle Great Hall · interior
  28. 18. Little Roodee
  29. 19. Foregate Street Market
  30. ↳ Butchers' Shambles · interior
  31. 20. Common Hall Exterior
  32. ↳ Common Hall Great Chamber · interior
  33. 21. Castle Keep Battlements