Museum · North Yorkshire, England
JORVIK Viking Centre
The JORVIK Viking Centre is a museum of Viking-age York on Coppergate, on the Coppergate archaeological site, with a ride through a reconstruction of 10th-century York.
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York
York is a city in North Yorkshire, England, which its tourism organisation Visit York describes as a city with Roman roots and a Viking past where ancient walls surround the centre. XTOUR maps York Minster, Clifford's Tower, the JORVIK Viking Centre, the National Railway Museum, the Yorkshire Museum and the City Walls in the city, and treats Castle Howard as a place reached from York, not part of it.
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United Kingdom
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City
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Fortress · North Yorkshire, England
Clifford's Tower
Clifford's Tower is the keep of York Castle on its raised mound on Tower Street in York, cared for by English Heritage.
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Church · North Yorkshire, England
York Minster
York Minster, the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York, is a working cathedral on Deangate in the centre of York, inside the city walls.
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Fortress · North Yorkshire, England
York City Walls
York's City Walls are the historic walls around the centre of York, a scheduled monument cared for by City of York Council, with an elevated walkway around the city centre.
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Museum · North Yorkshire, England
Yorkshire Museum
The Yorkshire Museum is a museum of archaeology and science in York's Museum Gardens, run by York Museums Trust.
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Museum · North Yorkshire, England
National Railway Museum
The National Railway Museum is the Science Museum Group's railway museum on Leeman Road in York, with halls of locomotives and carriages including Great Hall and Station Hall.
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Travel Guide01
England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom: what each name covers
The United Kingdom is Great Britain plus Northern Ireland, Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales, and England is one of the UK's four countries. This article sets out those definitions from UK legislation and government pages, shows where the difference turns up on food labels, number plates, heritage bodies and maps, and says how XTOUR files its UK destinations.
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Travel Guide02
Minster, abbey, priory, close and keep: heritage words on British signs
British church and castle names carry words that no longer mean what they once did: a minster can be a cathedral or a parish church, an abbey may have had no monks for centuries, and a keep is also called a great tower. This article explains six of those words from what the cathedrals, abbeys and heritage bodies say about themselves.
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Travel Guide03
United Kingdom travel guide: where to base yourself, and what each base is for
London, in England, and Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, come first; Bath, York, Oxford, Cambridge and Canterbury are smaller English bases, each built around a World Heritage site, a cathedral or a university; Cardiff, Glasgow, Inverness, Belfast and Liverpool cover Wales, the rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north-west of England. This guide says what each base is for, which well-known sights are reached from a base rather than in it, and what XTOUR does not state.
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Destination information last verified: October 11, 2026
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