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To this day, substantial portions of the walls remain, and York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England. They are known variously as York City Walls , the Bar Walls and the Roman walls (though this last is a misnomer as very little of the extant stonework is of Roman origin, and the course of the wall has been substantially ...
The Snickelways of York, often misspelt Snickleways, are a collection of narrow streets and alleys in the city of York, England.The word Snickelway was coined by local author Mark W. Jones in 1983 in his book A Walk Around the Snickelways of York, and is a portmanteau of the words snicket, meaning a passageway between walls or fences, ginnel, a narrow passageway between or through buildings ...
The street runs north-east from a junction with Stonebow, Aldwark and St Saviour's Place, to the York city walls at Layerthorpe Bridge, over the River Foss. There, it meets the inner ring road at a junction with Jewbury, Foss Bank, Foss Islands Road and Layerthorpe .
The area covered by the street lay partly within the walls of Roman Eboracum, and entirely within the current Mediaeval York city walls. [1] It emerged as a narrow lane running immediately south-east of the boundary wall of St Leonard's Hospital. It was first recorded in the 1260s as Ffotlesgayle, or "Footloose Lane", possibly referring to ...
The Anglian Tower is the lower portion of an early medieval tower on the city walls of York in the English county of North Yorkshire.It is located on the south-west (interior) face of the city walls, currently in the grounds of York City Library and accessible on foot both from there and the Museum Gardens.
The street runs south-east, from Ouse Bridge, to Davy Tower on the York City Walls, beyond which its route continues as the New Walk path through Tower Gardens. King Street, Cumberland Street and Lower Friargate lead off its north-eastern side, and steps connect it to Peckitt Street. [2] All the buildings on the street lie on the north-eastern ...
Marygate is a street in York, England, running just north of the city centre. Built in the Middle Ages , it gets its name from St Mary's Abbey and the Viking word "gata," meaning street. [ 1 ] The area where the street lies was outside the walls of the Roman city of Eboracum , [ 2 ] and represented the northern limit of the settlement; to the ...
The street runs inside the York city walls, and its name is presumed to refer to the walls of Roman Eboracum, which followed a similar line. The street was first recorded in the 1180s. The 10th-century church of St Helen-on-the-Walls was constructed just off the street, on what became known as St Helen's Lane, but this was demolished in the ...