Britain's MOST Roman City | Chester Guided History Tour ft. Helpful History

[@RomanFound]

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[@docneuro4500]

Wonderful video about a fascinating city. What an amazing history Chester has. Thank you for the fun and interesting tour!

[@christineoster8331]

As a European born American, I am always fascinated and excited about the history of places. Places everywhere! Having been to London (of course), Windsor, and Stonehenge, I love seeing the rest of Great Britain. You do a lovely job of narrating and finding interesting sites and objects. I’m curious to get a closer look at things and places. So glad that I found you! I love antiques, old buildings, history, and art. Greetings from Chicagoland in the USA!

[@addictedtotreasuretrash108]

My fav city. I used to go here at least once a week. To search roman relics and shop different items. It was only about 15 mins from where i live. Never get tired of it to this day.

[@RomanFound]

It blew us away! I don’t think we’d get tired of it either!! 😂

[@helpfulhistory]

I had so much fun exploring the history of Chester with you!🥳🏛️

[@RomanFound]

Thanks for joining us again Katie!! What an adventure!! 😍

[@facistbuster]

I would stay a month in Chester to explore those roman remains. What a beautiful city. Thanks for the nice video. 🇨🇦⛲⛲🕍🌹

[@RomanFound]

There’s plenty to see!! Would definitely recommend a visit! It’s certainly becoming more popular with tourists which isn’t surprising! 😂🤓🤎

[@cjpaisano]

What an excellent video! I now want to come to Chester and explore. I've been to the southern part of England - Rye and Hastings, which I enjoyed. Thank you so much!!!! Hi from Northern Arizona!

[@RomanFound]

Thank you and we highly recommended!! It’s nice to highlight some of the UKs northern cities. London gets all the publicity 😂🙏

[@kimbateman226]

What a lovely place Chester looks, so much history. Thanks for bringing us this video

[@RomanFound]

Thank you for watching Kim! We LOVED creating this video for you all 🥹 A highlight in our Roman Tour series! 🤎

[@EricLevine-v2u]

Just discovered your channel and love it! It is a nice way to be able to explore European history again now that I live in an area that is so remote from all of that. Great job guys, look forward to seeing more! From Fairbanks, Alaska

[@RomanFound]

Welcome the to channel and thank you so much!! We really appreciate the kind words! We have a few playlists with different adventures we do, so feel free to explore. 🤓🙌

[@johnsearle4715]

Very good , well put together friendly and informative,,

[@NeilWilliams-b6q]

Looks amazing such a brilliant town throughly enjoyed watching. Narrated fantastically happy days 👍🛵

[@RomanFound]

We had the BEST time in Chester!! A beautiful city and a joy to edit 😂 I got a bit obsessed with making maps hence the later upload 🤭

[@NeilWilliams-b6q]

@ nothing wrong with that great to watch and interesting 👍🛵

[@stevewhan7308]

I’ve just stumbled across your channel. What an awesome find! Love the presentation. Love the subject and the insightful info. Seriously, it’s tops & you’ve made my day. I’ve subscribed so I get to see more! 👍👍

[@RomanFound]

Welcome to the channel and thanks for the sub Steve!! Lots on offer here, have a browse through our playlists we have quite a large back catalog 😂🙌🤎

[@tanithmessenger3581]

Great tour ladies!

[@RomanFound]

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it!! 🥹🤎

[@charlesperez9976]

What a fascinating city. My favorites are the Minerva shrine,which is shocking on a few levels. Second to that is the Amphitheater,with the shrine to Nemesis!

[@RomanFound]

Both favourites of ours too, we were very impressed with the preservation of the amphitheatre!! There were lots of tours going on while we were there 😂 which made filming a challenge but brilliant to see it being used!

[@compustrat]

Thanks! I watch a lot of documentaries, and I've never heard of Chester's significant history. I enjoy it so much you fine scholars are my first Thanks donation. In this case, reward. I really appreciate the video, and I plan to visit Chester now. Seriously. Thank you all.

[@RomanFound]

Thank you so much for the support and kind gesture! We feel honoured!! Have a wonderful time when you visit Chester! It was fabulous!! If you need any food and accommodation recommendations, happy to suggest a couple places! 🤓🙏🤎

[@synsrfem4428]

Really well done! Well researched, well organized, well made, interesting and engaging

[@RomanFound]

Thank you so much! A lot of research and planning goes into making our History Tour videos, really nice to see that’s shone through in this video! 🤓🤎🙏

[@Michelle-tk9jq]

Beautiful tour thank you ladies!!!

[@redparrot9489]

LOOOVVVEEEEEE your road trips! This one was epic. 💕😎👍

[@RomanFound]

THANK YOU!!! Chester had so much to offer!! Some of the best ruins we've had the pleasure of visiting. 🤎🤎🤎

[@BarbaraEllis-si2rs]

Excellent programme and very well narrated!!

[@RomanFound]

Thank you so much! That’s means a lot 🥹🙏🤎

[@jerrysartain2539]

Highly appreciated, thanks. Extremely interesting.

[@RomanFound]

Glad you enjoyed it!! A fascinating city with so much history! 🤓🙏

[@ronnyskaar3737]

Really great video!

[@RomanFound]

Thank you so much! 🤓🤎

[@William-y2j]

Nicely done

[@danfennell87]

My home town 🙌😊

[@RomanFound]

You come from a beautiful place!!! 😍

[@momcatwoo]

Putting it on my list!!

[@RomanFound]

It’s a must visit!! 🙌

[@johnmcgaw2753]

Thanks. I was revisiting Chester at the beginning of October and thought that I had seen everything but you showed me a few that I missed. Clearly my method of purely random wandering allows some omissions. Maybe I'll look at one of the tourist guides next time. I look forward to going back in any case as this is one of my favorite cities in the UK. Maybe next Spring...

[@RomanFound]

Glad we could share a couple more spots to explore! Fully an advocate for random wandering, we would just be crucified if we missed anything major off the tour! 😂 it’s a fabulous city, we loved it!! Hope you get back to visit soon! 🙏

[@elbapo7]

Lovely overview of my hometown

[@RomanFound]

Thank you! Glad we could do it justice! So much history inside those city walls! 🙏🤎

[@markkinnish1196]

Hi can I just say I’m mark I joined this channel few months ago I loved this video. I live in Wirral near Liverpool so not too far from Chester. I come to Chester quite a lot love the history and I even do lots of research on Chester as well. Some great information to let you know. Where Off the Wall Pub is by the Roman Amphitheater there is remains of a Roman Tower Wall and if you go into off the wall pub into their beer garden there is another part of the Roman wall from that Roman tower wall remains. Thought I’d let you know. Like you I’m the same love digging and finding more and more out. Look forward to more of these from you.

[@RomanFound]

Hi Mark! A warm welcome to the channel! Glad you enjoyed the video! It was a fun one to research, and thank you for the tip about the Off the Wall Pub! We’re planning some new tours so stay tuned and we’re always happy to hear suggestions on where to go next 🤓⚔️🤎

[@mandiemckinnon2874]

Beautiful Chester - I used to know it quite well- but I never knew about the Minerva shrine 😮 wonderful and interesting video ladies 👏👏👏

[@RomanFound]

You are very welcome, the Minerva Shrine was such a special part of the tour. We'd never heard about it until researching for filming! 😮🤎

[@UkuleleBobbyKemp]

Really great stuff girls! - moving effortlessly into 'proper documentary' territory here, I fink - with on-screen map graphics, and lovely 'developing' tripod panshots... 🙏🏻 Really interesting content too, (and I was at that exact same pub-outside-bit (on yet another ill-feted date 🥴), only a couple of weeks ago... Great little city Chester hey? (and I really should go more often...). Thnx as ever for your hard work... Bobby x

[@RomanFound]

Thank you Bobby, had a lot of fun making the map graphics this time!! 😂 Thought it would help with adding more context. Not a bad place for a date! It’s a great little city!! We loved it!! 🙏🤓🤎

[@UkuleleBobbyKemp]

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[@WillMowass]

This was wonderful, thank you all. Any idea when Deva Victrix began to decline?

[@RomanFound]

As with most cities in Roman Britain it peters out around the time of the withdrawal from Britain, officially ‘Roman rule’ in Britain ends in 410 AD 🤓 there were of course those Romans who stayed, who had settled in Britain, and continued on into the 5th Century. Glad you loved the tour!! 💪

[@timmygoode7]

Love this 👍🏼👍🏼

[@RomanFound]

Thank you Timmy!! We loved filming this one!!

[@kevinmontgomery4443]

A few years back Foregate street was being renovated and as they dug they found pieces of pottery dated back to Emperor Nero. What I found poetically amusing was it was right outside Cafe Nero.

[@sticklebacksummer]

You get just more and more professional, keep well. P. S. You're starting to get to Time Team quality.

[@mirkatu3249]

Fun and interesting tour, ladies! The Minerva shrine is very cool. 🙂🤎

[@RomanFound]

It was such a highlight!! We loved the shrine! 😍

[@geedubxo]

Lovely stuff

[@RomanFound]

Thank you! 🥹🤎

[@MrChatternatter]

To this day, the Welsh name for Chester is Caer ... which means Fort. No other discriptors are in there like in Caernarfon, or Caerleon, just Caer. It was clearly regarded as THE fort.

[@RomanFound]

That’s incredibly fascinating! Thanks for sharing with us, there are many hidden clues in our place names! We’re planning to visit Wales again for another tour in the near future!

[@susanhudson4190]

Its in Chester

[@gaylemalone5897]

My family name is Chester wonder if we originally came from this area?

[@RomanFound]

I would say that’s probably likely! The word is derived from old English meaning Roman fort. Really cool!

[@LPeck1985]

I love how you both narrate. This is BBC type quality, (although I actually dislike the BBC their documentaries are done in a professional manner). 😂 I don't dislike you two at all.

[@RomanFound]

We're getting more into our narrator roles with each video 😂 hahah thank you we keep trying to improve! 🤎

[@LPeck1985]

@@RomanFound Now I dare you both to get hoodies with the words, "Narrator Gators" written on them. 🤣

[@RomanFound]

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[@cornovii3012]

I know it's not Roman related but if you are here again the Bridge of Sighs is worth a moment. Not many know about it especially tourists. Known as the Bridge of Sighs this is a footbridge over Chester Canal. It was probably built in the late 1700s. It was used to take prisoners from the City gaol to the former Chapel of St John in the south wing of the Bluecoat School. Here they could make their peace with God before execution.

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

I find cottagey wattle and daub or little brick houses much more attractive than the gaudy upscale mansions or palaces. Hate baroque, not crazy about a lot of Victoriana either.

[@momcatwoo]

@bbc … give these women jobs!

[@RomanFound]

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[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

The houses are charming. However the overall look is made worse by the streets too narrow, no street greenery and the houses being too close together. But I guess the land was so expensive and taxes so high, they tried to cram in as many buildings as possible and perfect proportions were not a priority.

[@Dooguk]

What a weird post!

[@lindaahlgrim1331]

I would have eaten at Thai Baan.

[@TreforTreforgan]

Russell Crow just cannibalised his wife! He was Gladiator.

[@RomanFound]

He did WHAT?? 👀

[@TreforTreforgan]

@ so, speaking academically… why do you still pronounce the Vs in Latin as they are in English? Vs are pronounced as Ws in English. Every Roman boffin knows this by now. Tutus tutum.

[@TreforTreforgan]

(Tut tut in Latin)

[@RomanFound]

As in DeVa instead of DeWa. We went with the local pronunciation, do as the locals do.

[@TreforTreforgan]

@ the locals are like Hollyoaks cast members! You should do the very opposite of what they do!🤪

[@MrDougiew1]

I suggest if you want a Roman Town then Visit York and stronghold of Constantine