Roberts' Chester Guide [1858]

A revised guide to the city of Chester offers a compact historical survey and practical handbook for visitors, combining chapters on ancient Roman origins, ecclesiastical and municipal history, and detailed descriptions of walls, gates, cathedral, abbey, castle, rows, towers, baths and other antiquities. It enumerates public institutions, churches and dissenting chapels, civic buildings, cemeteries, and transport information, and provides lists of streets, distances, hotels, fares and railway access. The volume is illustrated with engravings and an annotated plan to assist sightseers and to record architectural features and antiquarian finds.