Grounds associated with the Retreat

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

1 km W · North Yorkshire

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

1.2 km NW

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

1.5 km NW

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

1.6 km NW · North Yorkshire

Vast Gothic cathedral, largest in northern Europe.

1.9 km NW

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

3.6 km W