Chester has the oldest race course in the UK. In 1540 Henry Gee, the mayor of Chester in 1540, cancelled the Traditional Shrove Tuesday football game and replaced it with a horse race. His surname is where we get the term 'Gee Gee's'.
Chester is over 2000 years old and the name Chester is derived from the Latin for a Camp 'Castra'.The Roman name for Chester was 'Deva' after the goddess of the River Dee.
