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York City Walls

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Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground

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York City Walls is one of three early cathedral sites the Albion Guide lists in North Yorkshire. The nearest railway station, York, is under a kilometre away. York Minster and St Mary's Abbey (North Yorkshire) are among the monastic sites within 0.6 km.

Full name: City Walls, gates, posterns (not including the section from Bootham Bar to Monk Bar, N of the Minster, now part of National Monument No 13280), moats, mounds, Bayle (or Baile) Hill, St Leonard's…

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Photo of the River Ouse (Yorkshire), a 61-mile river navigation in northern England.

River Ouse (Yorkshire)

River navigation

York's river, tidal below Naburn, carrying the Vale of York's waters past the city walls toward the Humber.

0.1 km S · North Yorkshire

Photo of York, a village in North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

York

Village

England's great walled cathedral city, the Minster rising over the timbered lean of the Shambles and a two-mile rampart above the Ouse.

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Photo of The Shambles, a landmark in North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

The Shambles

Landmark near York

Overhanging timbered street of the medieval butchers, one of Britain's best-preserved and most photographed.

0.3 km NE

Photo of Clifford's Tower, York, a motte & bailey in North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Clifford's Tower, York

Motte & bailey · Castle near York

Clifford's Tower, Henry III's four-lobed stone keep on William the Conqueror's castle mound in York.

0.3 km SE

Photo of York Minster, a cathedral in North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

York Minster

Cathedral near York

Vast Gothic cathedral, largest in northern Europe.

0.6 km N

Photo of York Cold War Bunker, a visitor attraction in North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

York Cold War Bunker

Attraction near York

Semi-sunken 1960s monitoring post in a York suburb, where the Royal Observer Corps would have tracked nuclear fallout after an attack.

2.3 km W