What's On
Model Boat Fair
National Waterways Museum
3rd Mar 2012 - 4th Mar 2012There will be big boats and small boats, docks and locks ....
Chester History Hunter Walking Tour
Town Hall Visitor Information Centre, ChesterEnjoy the Best of Chester with this daily walking tour ....
Railtour: The Lincolnshire Poacher
5th May 2012All aboard for an excursion to Lincoln, Wainfleet (for a tour around Bateman's Brewery) and the seaside town of Skegness ....
Chester Food, Drink & Lifestyle Festival
Chester Racecourse
7th Apr 2012 - 9th Apr 2012The 2012 Chester Food, Drink and Lifestyle Festival will be the 11th festival and it's ready to be the biggest and best yet ....
Lunatics, Lovers, Poets and More
Chester History and Heritage
9th Jan 2012 - 30th Mar 2012This quirky and unusual exhibition looks at some of the curious and remarkable characters ....
The Head that Wears the Crown: Decoding Royal Portraits in Chester
Grosvenor Museum
14th Jan 2012 - 1st Apr 2012An exhibition that decodes the representation of monarchy and monarchs through their portraits ....
Where to Visit
Places
- Acton Bridge
- Adlington
- Alderley Edge
- Alsager
- Altrincham
- Ashley
- Audlem
- Bache
- Bebington
- Bidston
- Birchwood
- Birkenhead
- Bramhall
- Bromborough
- Buckley
- Buxton
- Caergwrle
- Capenhurst
- Cefn-y-Bedd
- Chapel-en-le-Frith
- Cheadle Hulme
- Chelford
- Cheshire Oaks
- Chester
- Congleton
- Crewe
- Cuddington & Sandiway
- Davenport
- Delamere
- Derby
- Disley
- Dove Holes
- Earlestown
- Eastham
- Edge Hill
- Ellesmere Port
- Flixton
- Frodsham
- Furness Vale
- Glazebrook
- Goostrey
- Gwersyllt
- Hale
- Halewood
- Handforth
- Hawarden
- Hazel Grove
- Heaton Chapel
- Helsby
- Heswall
- Holmes Chapel
- Hooton
- Hope
- Hoylake
- Ince & Elton
- Irlam
- Kelsall
- Kidsgrove
- Knutsford
- Leasowe
- Levenshulme
- Little Sutton
- Liverpool
- Liverpool John Lennon Airport
- Longport
- Lostock Gralam
- Lymn
- Macclesfield
- Malpas
- Manchester
- Manchester Airport
- Meols
- Middlewood
- Mobberley
- Moreton
- Mouldsworth
- Nantwich
- Neston
- New Brighton
- New Mills
- Newton-le-Willows
- Northwich
- Padgate
- Penyffordd
- Plumley
- Port Sunlight
- Poynton
- Prees
- Prestbury
- Rock Ferry
- Runcorn
- Sandbach
- Sankey
- Shotton
- Shrewsbury
- Spital
- Stanlow & Thornton
- Stockport
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Styal
- Tarporley & Beeston
- Upton
- Urmston
- Uttoxeter
- Wallasey
- Warrington
- Wem
- West Kirby
- Whaley Bridge
- Whitchurch
- Widnes
- Wilmslow
- Winsford
- Woodsmoor
- Wrenbury
- Wrexham
- Yorton
The Urenco site employs over 300 people and provides the local community with long-term employment in a technical environment, as well as opportunities for young people to pursue engineering and scientific careers.
In 1999 the journalist Duncan Campbell published claims that a 50m high tower on the premises of the uranium enrichment plant had been used to phone-tap calls transmitted between the BT towers at Gwaenysgor and Pale Heights, near Chester.
Campbell claimed that the interception was conducted by GCHQ, initially from a temporary installation on the roof of the plant until commissioning of the tower in 1990. The tower was demolished in 2004.
Close to Capenhurst is the Blue Planet Aquarium, the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port, Chester Zoo and the Ness Botanic Gardens.