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Plans from 2018 showed more six-storey apartment blocks than houses, cafes, restaurants, and a hotel in the centre of the commercial area, which is adjacent to the railway station. [10] The developer is York Central Partnership, which consists of Homes England, Network Rail, the National Railway Museum and City of York Council. [9]
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 ...
Knaresborough hosts an annual Bed Race, organised by the Knaresborough Lions Club. It is held on the second Saturday of June and was first held in 1966. [12] An annual, town centre arts summer festival, the Festival of Entertainment and Visual Arts, has been staged since 2001. [13] Since May 2019, a parkrun takes place every Saturday at ...
The street runs north-east from the junction of Blake Street, Museum Street and St Leonard's Place, to the front of York Minster, where Petergate, Minster Yard and Precentor's Court meet. [1] [4] It is the main approach to York Minster for visitors arriving from York railway station. [4] Almost all the buildings on the street are listed.
The Grand, formerly the Grand Hotel and Spa, is a Grade II* listed [2] hotel in York, England, the city's only 5-star hotel.Opened in May 2010 and renovated and extended in 2017–18, it is an Edwardian building dating to 1906, originally the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway, with views of the York city walls and York Minster.
Peter Gibson, a glazier who worked on all of the Minster's stained-glass windows, lived at 1 Precentor's Court for almost all of his 87 years. "I live here, and I look out of the window, and there it is, the Minster. It is one of the greatest buildings in the world," he said. "People cross oceans, cross the world, to come and see it." [11]
The south-western side of the square is occupied by the Mansion House and there is also access to the York Guildhall, which can be seen through a gateway. On the north-western side Harkers was constructed for the Yorkshire Insurance Company , and the York County Savings Bank Building was also built in the mid-19th century for a local institution.