It crosses the River Dee carrying the road that leads from the bottom of Lower Bridge Street and the Bridgegate to Handbridge.

[2][3] The original bridge was built for the Romans and probably had stone piers carrying a timber carriageway.

[5] The bridge was reached by a causeway, which according to a manuscript in the Harleian Collection was built for Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (died 1101) along with watermills on the Dee at that point.

[8] In December 1388 a grant of pontage was made to the "mayor, bailiffs and good men of Chester" for a period of three years.

The result was the Grosvenor Bridge, designed by Thomas Harrison and officially opened in 1832 although it was not finished for traffic to cross it until 1 January 1834.