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Reliving city’s Viking heritage
The Chester Chronicle
|June 12, 2025
VIKING tours are returning to Chester this summer with a bigger team of guides.
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Launched last year, the tours explore everything about the Age of the Vikings who settled in the city more than 1,000 years ago and were frequently at odds with their Anglo-Saxon neighbours.
Viking Chester features costumed guides dressed as a formidable fighter or a Shield Maiden complete with replica swords and shields and many other items.
They leave from the Town Hall Visitor Information Centre and show people around locations associated with the invaders from across the North Sea.
Everyone taking part in the tour receives a replica Viking coin.
This story is from the June 12, 2025 edition of The Chester Chronicle.
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