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York

Created: 29  March  2019  Edited: 29  November  2023

York

Shopping in York

Local History around York

There are some historic monuments around including:

Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe HillNether Poppleton medieval moated site, fishponds and earthworks around and associated with St Everilda's ChurchYork Castle: motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle (including Clifford's Tower), and site of part of Romano-British fort-vicus and Anglian cemeteryFulford cross, 200m south west of the barracksSouth angle tower of Roman fortressSt Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre RoyalStanding tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial groundSt George's medieval chapel 120m south of York CastleSt Mary's AbbeyRoman camp on Bootham Stray, 450m north east of Moor FarmMerchant's Hall, FossgateLamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk BarCity 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 Hospital and Merchant Taylor's Hall, AldwarkRoman camp on Clifton Moor, 275m NNE of Moor FarmSiwards How, south east of the water tower, Heslington HillSt Mary's Abbey precinct wallsMedieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 StonegateWorld War II bombing decoy 500m east of Bland's PlantationRoman camp on Huntington South Moor, 300m east of Huntington Grange.

Wildlife in and Around York

Birds found in York

There have been 141 species of birds recorded in the york area.

Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
Black-Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)

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York map

York UK Map