Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 roughly follows the line of a Roman road from Eboracum to Derventio. Its starting point was the Porta Principalis Sinistra of the Roman walls, now Monk Bar on the current York city walls. The name "Monkgate" was first recorded in about 1075, named for monks attached to York Minster.
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
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 ...
Notable buildings on the east side street include part of the city walls; The Edinburgh Arms pub, built as a house in 1830; [6] 29 Fishergate, a late 18th-century building which served for a time as the Nunnery of the Sisters of St Vincent; [7] the early-19th century Ivy Cottage; [8] and Fishergate County Primary School, built in 1893 by W. H ...
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 ...
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 ...