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Old Maps and Aerial Photographs of Chester
Batenham's Map of Chester 1816
| Well
into
the
19th
century,
and
still
the
city
has
barely
yet
started
to
spread
beyond
the
protection
of
her
ancient
circuit
of
walls. There is still only a single crossing of the Dee- via the Old Dee Bridge (which is illustrated in the right-hand corner of the map). The diagonal line in the south west corner of the walls marks the approximate course of the Grosvenor Bridge which was commenced ten years after this map appeared. Upriver from the city, the Dee has been confined within man-made banks, and the buildings comprising what we know today as the Old Port are clearly visible to the far left of the plan. |
On to Hemingway's Map of Chester 1836
