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Judge’s Court

Judge’s Court

This alleyway off Coney Street leads into a courtyard and, beyond, a four-storey Georgian building. Between 1720 and 1806 it provided lodgings to Britain’s most senior judges before they set out to …

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York Castle

York Castle

York Castle was originally a large fortified complex, comprising the keep of Clifford’s Tower, prisons and various other buildings. Its first incarnation was as a wooden structure, rapidly assembled following …

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The Shambles

The Shambles

The Shambles is known for the number of butchers that used to trade from it. Shambles takes its name from ‘shammels’, an Anglo-Saxon word relating to the flesh benches or …

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Bedern

Bedern

An ancient lane, off Goodramgate, leading to Bedern Chapel and Hall and, via Bartle Garth, to St Saviourgate. A bridge, now destroyed, would have connected Bedern to the Minster precinct.

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St Mary church, Bishophill Senior

St Mary, Bishophill Senior

All that remains of this church, demolished in the 1960s, is a community garden, which is situated alongside a snickelway called Carr’s Lane. Excavations revealed that the church stood on …

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