Gorse Stacks car park
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Gorse Stacks car park by Dennis Turner as part of the Geograph project.
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Gorse Stacks car park
Image: © Dennis Turner Taken: 8 Jun 2008
So named because it was the site where gorse was stored outside the city wall. Before becoming a car park in the late 1960s it was the site of Chester cattle market. It is believed that the wall in the foreground is a remnant of the old cattle market boundary wall.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.193163
Longitude
-2.889026