Monument record 10002 - Watergate Street

Watergate Street is one of the four main streets of Chester leading from the Cross to the Westgate. The road may have its origins in the western part of the Roman via Principalis (CHER 8595) with evidence of an earlier road surface believed to be Roman underlying the present street. It is first mentioned in around 1220 as ‘watergatestrete’. (1)

<1> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, vol.V(i) (Book). SCH3228.

<2> Mapping Medieval Chester Project, 2011, Digital Archive of Mapping Medieval Chester website (Digital Archive). SCH6761.

<3> Haswell, George. W, 1907, Notes on Chester Street-names past and present (Northern Section) (Article in Journal). SCH5548.

<4> Brown, W, 1907, Notes on Chester Street-names past and present (Article in Journal). SCH5549.