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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST Exploring York
To the Romans, the city of York
Practical Information was Eboracum, to the Saxons it
was Eoforwic, and to the Vikings
* 120,000. n 1 Museum St
(01904-550 099). ( daily. Jorvik. Danish street names are a
_ Jorvik Festival (Feb); St. reminder that from 867, York was
Nicholas Fair (Nov). York Minster: a major Viking settlement.
Deangate. Tel 01904-557 216. Jorvik Viking Center, the Viking
Open daily. Jorvik Viking Center: museum, is built underground
Coppergate Walk. Tel 01904-543 on an archaeological site
400. Open daily. Closed Dec 25. excavated at Coppergate. The
∑ visityork.org latest technology brings the
Transport sights and smells of 10th-century
£ @ Station Rd. York dramatically to life.
Between 1100 and 1500, York
was England’s second city.
. Jorvik Viking Center Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate York Minster, the largest Gothic
The many artifacts on show is York’s tiniest street. The church in northern Europe,
G O O D R
here explore the time name means “neither one was begun in 1220. It has a
when York was a strategic thing nor the other street.”
Viking town. remarkable collection of medieval
A M G A T E
stained glass. The vast Great East
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall
Window (1405–8) depicts the
Creation. In 1984, a disastrous fire
ST SAVIOURGATE THE STONEBO W the roof and shattered its
in the south transept destroyed
L O W P E T E R G A T E
magnificent rose window.
This has since been restored.
COLLIERGATE
Much of York’s wealth in
the late Middle Ages came
from the cloth trade. The
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall,
THE SHAMBLES
the headquarters of a powerful
PAV E M E N T . York Castle Museum guild of traders, is a beautifully
F O S S G A T E
preserved timber-framed
building that dates from
Converted from two 18th-century
P A R L I A M E N T S T
prisons, the museum features the mid-14th century.
P I C C A D I L L Y
In the 19th century, York’s
HIGH OUSEGATE C O P P E R G AT E cell of the notorious highwayman Scotland made it a major rail
reconstructions of old York and the
position on the route to
Dick Turpin (1706–39).
center. Train enthusiasts should
head for the National Railway
SPURRIERGATE
Museum, the largest of its kind
in the world, where the rolling
C A S T L E G AT E
stock on show includes Queen
OUSE BDG C L I F F O R D S T R E E T Victoria’s royal carriage.
E National Railway Museum
Leeman Rd. Tel 08448-153 139.
St. Mary’s Open daily. Closed Dec 24–26. 7
Church
T O W E R S T R E E T
Clifford’s Tower
Hull (c.1250)
Key 0 meters 100 The square central tower of York Minster,
Suggested route 0 yards 100 rising above the city
For keys to symbols see back flap

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