Chester and the Dee

Here I am Rune

Distance 0 miles

Total 693 Locks 26 Tunnels

Running total mileage 1062.0 miles

Still on the same mooring outside of Chester University and took the opportunity to have another wander around Chester today. On previous wanderings we have invariably gone around the city walls to get to the centre but today I thought I’d try cutting through the town to get there. Walking around the city walls is effectively walking around two sides of a square but when you walk through the town itself it becomes apparent that it is built on a grid design so there is no short cut diagonal route. It appears that waling the city walls is as quick as any other route!

Tomorrow the intention is to have a stroll on the riverbank around the racecourse with perhaps a trip up the Cathedral Tower to get an overview of the city, all depends if the weather holds.

 

Where the Shropshire Union Cana meets the River Dee

 During my stroll around Chester I thought that I'd take a look at the point where the Shropshire Union meets the Dee (photo above). This is impassable to narrow boat traffic (generally) as the two gates that should be at the end of the wall in the picture have collapsed. It should be a sort of Tidal lock and to get to the town you'd go out of the gates and turn left. A small confounding factor is that you'd have to go over a weir to get onto the navigable section of the river and whilst a boater on the wharf at Chester was telling us a tale of people he knew who had done it, it certainly isn't on my to do list!