Superbly preserved, York has witnessed more than 2000 years of vibrant history – with its cobbled streets and snickleways, welcoming inns, restaurants and candlelit churches.York is a year round destination offering a lively café bar and restaurant culture and vibrant entertainment and festivals. Visit the stunning York Minster, enjoy Stonegate and Shambles shopping and live the York history at the JORVIK Viking Centre, National Railway Museum and York Castle Museum.
York Minster first church on the site was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria. The present building was begun in about 1230 and completed in 1472. It has a cruciform plan with an octagonal chapter house attached to the north transept, a central tower and two towers at the west front. The Minster is 158 metres long and each of its three towers are 60 metres high. The choir, which has an interior height of 31 metres, is only surpassed in height in England by the choir of Westminster Abbey. The cruciform plan of York Minster The North and South transepts were the first parts of the new church to be built.
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JORVIK Viking Centre Archaeologists started digging on the site of an old sweet factory and unearthed remains of 10th century Viking-age buildings that were surrounded by moist, spongy layers of earth similar to that of a peat bog. These damp conditions helped preserve everyday Viking items such as wood, leather, cloth, bugs and even a Viking toilet and its contents. In total an incredible 40,000 objects were uncovered by excavating 36,000 layers and sieving 8 tonnes of soil!
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