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Fortress · York, North Yorkshire, England

York City Walls

Bar 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.

Why go

York's City Walls are a scheduled monument cared for by City of York Council, which says they make visible over 2,000 years of urban change in the city. The council describes the walkway as an elevated circular route around the city centre that can be joined at various points, including the principal gateways, known as bars. Its visiting page says pushchairs and dogs, other than assistance dogs, are not allowed on the walls, that children must be closely supervised, and its opening-times page says the walkway gates are not opened in very high winds or icy or slippery conditions, so check the council's page on closures before you go. This record stands for the whole circuit; the individual bars and towers are not separate records here, and the record's single point is never a way onto the walls.

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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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