Every Friday April - September
4pm (New later time) Prompt
£10 Per Head
Tickets: Chester Visitor Infomation Centre Chester Town Hall CH1 2HJ 01244 405 340. Pay by Cash or Card.
Join Caroline and I at 4pm for this expert weekly guided walk in Chester.
Tour starts from the cemetery back gate off the roundabout. Because the tour guide arrives by car and needs parking.
The tour is not in the historic centre of Chester. But just outside in the nice suburb of Handbridge.
About a twenty minute walk from the Town Hall.
Directions to the start of the tour: Walk down Bridge Street turn right onto Grosvenor Street and go across the bridge and turn left at the roundabout.
Stories of local celebrities from the graveside. A nice woodland walk around the old Victorian part only.
Expert qualified guides. The tour lasts a good 90 minutes or more.
Find out about the lives of John Douglas, Thomas Lockwood, Randolph Caldecott and more.
Overleigh Cemetery
Handbridge Chester CH4 7H
Location
Located just outside the main shopping centre of Chester, to the south.
Fifteen minutes walk across the River Dee and the Grosvenor Bridge in the Chester suburb of Overleigh near Handbridge.
Located just after the bridge on the left when coming out of Chester in woodland, in a valley below the road level.
Description
Overleigh Cemetery is a Victorian cemetery located across the River Dee and Grosvenor Bridge.
Due to the graveyards in the city being full it was decided to build a new cemetery outside the city walls.
The original place was to be the Little Roodee the other side of the river. But eventually the far side of the river was chosen.
The cemetery contains the grave of the famous Victorian Architect John Douglas and Edward Langtree.
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Every Friday April - September
Date Visited 30th August 2024
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