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Map of North Yorkshire, UK with York highlighted. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170%: Date: 14 April 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Coastline and administrative boundary data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England location map.svg by Spischot. Author
The following is a list of historic maps of York: c.1610: John Speed's map [1] 1624: Samuel Parsons' map of Dringhouses [2] c1682: Captain James Archer's Plan of the Greate, Antient & Famous Citty of York [3] 1685: Jacob Richards' Survey of the City of York [4] 1694: Benedict Horsley's Iconography or Ground Plot of ye City of Yorke [1]
The City of York, officially simply "York", [6] is a unitary authority area with city status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. [7]The district's main settlement is York, and its coverage extends to the town of Haxby and the villages of Earswick, Upper Poppleton, Nether Poppleton, Copmanthorpe, Bishopthorpe, Dunnington, Stockton on the Forest, Rufforth, Askham Bryan and ...
In the centre of York, in St Helen's Square, there is the York branch of Bettys Café Tea Rooms. Bettys' founder, Frederick Belmont, travelled on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary in 1936. He was so impressed by the splendour of the ship that he employed the Queen Mary's designers and craftsmen to turn a dilapidated furniture store in York ...
York's squares are: St Sampson's Square, the old market square at the head of Parliament Street; St Helen's Square, anchored by York Mansion House and St Helen's Church on opposing ends of the square, it also links to York Guildhall which is behind the mansion house overlooking the River Ouse; King's Square, anchored by York's Chocolate Story;
"Shambles" is an obsolete term for an open-air slaughterhouse and meat market.Streets of that name were so called from having been the sites on which butchers killed and dressed animals for consumption (One source suggests that the term derives from "Shammel", an Anglo-Saxon word for shelves that stores used to display their wares, [2] while another indicates that by AD 971 "shamble" meant a ...
Micklegate is a street in the City of York, England.The name means "Great Street", "gate" coming from the Old Norse gata, or street. [1]Micklegate is described by York City Council as "one of the most handsome streets in Yorkshire", [2] and was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "...without any doubt the most architecturally rewarding street in York". [3]
Tower Street (York) W. Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate This page was last edited on 24 January 2019, at 22:46 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...