Walk the walls that ring Chester's old centre and the whole shape of the place becomes obvious inside an hour: a tight, walled core surrounded by a much bigger, much greener county. That's the honest picture behind this page too. Chester itself is small enough to cross on foot, so the search for beer here spreads outward fast, along the Dee and out into rural Cheshire, through villages that are really just a pub, a church and a handful of houses, and on towards the Welsh border where place names start doing something different to the ear. A pub in a Cheshire village and a bottle shop tucked behind Chester's black-and-white shopfronts are covered by the same page, because in practice nobody treats them as separate trips. This page tracks that whole stretch rather than stopping at a tidy line on a map, since a border county was never going to sit still inside one.
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