Chester
Chester is a beautiful city that is very popular with tourists, with its traditional quaint buildings, unique atmosphere and sense huge amount of history.
The city is a hub for major roads, including the M53 motorway towards the Wirral Peninsula and Liverpool and the M56 motorway towards Manchester. The A55 road runs along the North Wales coast to Holyhead and the A483 links the city to nearby Wrexham and Swansea to the far south.
Chester is one of the best places to live in the UK according to a recent official survey, bursting with high quality housing new and old being restored and built within and around the city.
Chester plays home to many large financial corporations based within the city enabling large amounts of employment with the local area. The city boasts with the fastest levels in the country of expanding and looking to expand further within the next decade.
It's main industries are now the service industries comprising retail, public administration and financial services, although many domestic and international tourists still visit to view the cities landmarks and heritage which boosts the local tourist industry.
The city's central shopping area includes its unique Rows or galleries which date from medieval times and are believed to include the oldest shop front in England.
Just over the Welsh border to the west, Broughton is home to a large Airbus UK factory (formerly British Aerospace), employing around 6,000 staff, where the wings of the Airbus aeroplanes are manufactured, and there are food processing plants to the north and west. The Iceland frozen food company is based in nearby Deeside.
Chester Racecourse hosts several flat race meetings from the spring to the autumn. The races take place within view of the City walls and attract tens of thousands of visitors.
