It shines a flickering candlelight into the darkest recesses of Chester’s 2,000-year heritage, revealing dark-tourism tales of plague, witchcraft and grisly executions amongst others.
This is an evening walking tour of the city, mixing social history with folklore and plenty of dark humour.
This event is a special tour for the Chester Heritage Festival with a different route and different stories.
It takes a Gothic-literature theme to explore tales from the dark side of the city.
The regular tour runs Saturdays 6pm outside of the festival — see the Our Heritage section of the website.
Dark Chester won New Tourism Business of the Year at the Marketing Cheshire 2024.