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From just north of Walmgate bar, the area outside the walls is light industrial with a number of supermarkets. From Red Tower to the Layerthorpe, along the Foss, the city walls have been removed. Near Fishergate Bar is York Barbican. The centre reaches from Walmgate Stray to Monk Stray; neighbouring Fulford, Heslington, Osbaldwick and Heworth.
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 ...
York Minster, a large Gothic cathedral, dominates the city. York's centre is enclosed by the city's medieval walls, which are a popular walk. [217] [218] These defences are the most complete in England. They have the only walls set on high ramparts and they retain all their principal gateways. [219]
King's Square is an open area in the city centre of York, England. It is popular with tourists, who are often entertained by buskers and street performers. [1] Nikolaus Pevsner notes that "the square has trees, which distinguishes it". [2] The York's Chocolate Story attraction lies on the western side of the square. [3]
Market Street is a road in the city centre of York, in England. History The ... The street now forms part of the city's central shopping area, ...
The YO postcode area, also known as the York postcode area, [2] is a group of 29 postcode districts in Yorkshire, England, within ten post towns.These cover most of Central and Eastern North Yorkshire (including York, Scarborough, Pickering, Selby, Thirsk, Malton, Filey and Whitby) and the northern part of the East Riding of Yorkshire (including Bridlington and Driffield).
Bootham is the main route out of York city centre to the north-west, and it forms part of the A19 road. [5] [6] It continues the line of High Petergate, the via principalis of Roman Eboracum, from Bootham Bar in the York city walls. It follows the main Roman road from York to Catterick. [7]
5 and 7 Feasegate. The street runs south from St Sampson's Square to Market Street.Notable buildings on the west side include 1 Feasegate, built in 1770 by Robert Woodhouse; [5] 5 and 7 Feasegate, designed by W. Brown in 1885, and with what Nikolaus Pevsner described as "a remarkably radical piece of work", with a wrought iron a plate glass front; [6] the three-storey 7a Feasegate, built in ...