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Unemployment in York was low at 4.2% in 2008 compared to the United Kingdom national average of 5.3%. [119] The biggest employer in York is the City of York Council, with over 7,500 employees. Employers with more than 2,000 staff include Aviva (formerly Norwich Union Life), Network Rail , Northern Trains , York Hospitals NHS Trust and the ...
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 ...
After the war, York slowly regained its former pre-eminence in the North, and, by 1660, was the third-largest city in England after London and Norwich. In 1686 the Bar Convent was founded, in secret due to anti-catholic Laws, making it the oldest surviving convent in England. York elected two members to the Unreformed House of Commons.
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;
Recorded as being built in 1440, this postern is located on the corner of Fishergate and Piccadilly. It was altered in 1505 and was separated from the walls of York Castle by water. It has four floors. It is currently leased from the City Council to the Friends Of York Walls, who maintain displays of the walls within. [39]
National Centre for Early Music, in the medieval Church of St Margaret and home of the York Early Music Festival; National Railway Museum; River Ouse, with boat rides and crossed by several bridges; St George's York; The Shambles, York's best-preserved medieval street; The Snickelways, a collection of narrow streets and passages; Treasurer's ...
1844 – York Gas Light Company and York Union Gas Light Company amalgamated. 1845 – York Penitentiary Society formed to provide a refuge for reformed prostitutes. 1846 – York New Waterworks Company formed. 1851–52 – Walker Iron Foundry supply forecourt railings for the British Museum in London.
A borough constituency consisting of the city of York has been represented in every Parliament since the Model Parliament of 1295. Until 1918, it returned two MPs; since then it has returned one. Until 1997, when its official name became City of York with no boundary changes, [27] the constituency was usually simply called York.