YORK England - The Most Medieval City in England - Walking Tour
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- York, England is one of the best medieval cities to visit. For the best thing to see in York, England join our walking city tour & history of York. We give you over 30 ideas of things to see and do, all with a historic twist. Whether you are coming to York for a day or having a UK City break there is enough to keep you busy for days here!
We have covered everything we think is most important to see in York, England, of course, there are loads more we just didn't have time to cover.
Link to the York Pass yorkpass.com/
For links to all the attractions www.visityork.org/
Chapters:-
0:00 Visiting York Intro
0:43 City Wall Walk
2:15 Bootham Bar
2:46 Roman Past
3:09 York Minster
3:53 College St
4:33 Treasurer's House
5:17 Monk Bar
5:51 Explore the old streets
6:20 Merchants Hall
10:04 Walmgate Bar
10:31 Dick Turpin Grave
10:51 Clifford's Tower
11:20 York Castle Museum
12:31 Fairfax House
13:31 Van Gogh Experience
13:41 Jorvik Viking Centre
14:52 York Pass
15:20 Pubs of York
16:12 The Shambles
18:13 Shambles Market
18:35 Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate
18:57 York Chocolate Story
19:26 Snickelways
19:44 Barley Hall
20:10 Exploring the old streets
20:43 River Cruise
21:23 Yorkshire Museum & Gardens
23:31 York Art Gallery
23:46 The King's Manor
24:29 National Railway Museum
26:25 York Cat Trail
26:55 Micklegate Bar
27:29 Ghost Tour
28:00 Guy Fawkes Inn
28:27 Getting to York
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I am lucky enough to live in this beautiful city. There is always something new to discover. If you have never been, you should make every effort to come and visit. You wont be disappointed.
You are very lucky to live there. So jealous! Wonderful place to visit.
What's your favorite restaurant?
Only had one meal out in York would suggest you check Google or trip advisor for reviews. There are tons of places to eat.
@@elizabethw.454 I've just done a post on mine.
I agree I only live 18 miles from York and visit often.
I live here and would recommend to not come on a weekend, but come during the week.
The shops will be far less stressed, you will find tables at restaurants and old pubs and you'll just generally have a more pleasant time.
Weekends are beyond ridiculous with how busy it is now.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
I was born in York and spent my youth running around the snickets and alley ways. My mother is in the Terrys Chocolate Works Care Village. A lovely place indeed
I didn't know they had a care home, how lovely. What did she do in the factory?
London is cool but York is the best city in England imo. Hit the night for a pub crawl, great stuff
I think I would prefer it to a night out in London too.
York is my favourite place in the world! I was at the University of Leeds for a study year abroad from Ontario, and it was the first time I ever saw a cathedral, Roman ruins and Medieval buildings. An instant love affair was born. I go back any chance I get-- and I've been on so many Ghost Tours, I could probably lead one myself! I hope to visit later this year. Thank you-- this is wonderful. x
Oh so nice to hear you might get to go back later this year! Enjoy.
@@MemorySeekers Fingers crossed!
Which ghost tour you recommend?
I can only recommend the one in the video as that is the only one we have been on. www.thebloodytourofyork.co.uk/
Visiting York from U.S. in September. Thank you for the information!
Have fun!
The production behind this video is fantastic. This is something I would expect to watch on the BBC or PBS. How you transport the audience to your filming location is very impressive. You've made me start searching for houses in the area now, haha.
Thank you so much for your kind words. We try and make them as professional as we can with our low budget kit 😊
Many generations of my family are from York .I live about 12 miles outside of the city, but visit regularly. Wonderful city with a great history,
How lovely to be able to visit often. I wish we could!
Absolutely loved York. Bought yarn on Shambles to knit gifts for our children for Christmas that year. Had dinner at Guy Fawkes and was given the recipe for the Guy Fawkes Steak Pie. Such a delight for a Canadian who loves to cook.
How lovely I hope you haven’t spoilt the surprise on their gifts ☺️
I used to work in York in the later 1960s and it was such a relief to see how little it has changed since then. Thank you.
A truly incredible tour tonight. My grandparents left all this magnificence behind in 1923 to come to Western Australia
to promised farmlands that turned out to be sandy coastal plains. Many English returned to England.My grandmother wanted
to go home but they stayed and found other work and made a success of things.
Perth western Australia is a great city with a lovely sunny climate!
@@ds1868 My family are in Perth also I love it there.
I'm an American who particularly loves your videos exploring the UK. I wish you would visit Wales. I would enjoy learning about historic sites of that region. Thanks for the calm, beautiful, and educational content!
Hello and thank you for watching. Yes we have not really spent any time in Wales and does have a lot to share. I am sure we will get there at some point. Thanks for watching.
Agreed Wales is a fascinating country with lots to see. Please remember Wales is a country and nation in its own right within the United Kingdom, not a region.
@@ds1868 Region: "an area, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries." Seems like calling it a region is fine.
Hi ,
Regarding your comments on Wales , being Welsh I have to honestly agree.
Actually there are more castles in Wales then in any of the four regions of the British isles..
Thanks to Edward I and his descendants, the Norman's had to try and keep control of this trouble some nation.
But no, please take a visit to this beautiful part of the United Kingdom , you will not regret it....
I’ve finally found it, Old York.
'Snickleways' have been snickets in Lancashire for donkey's years!
I spent four of the happiest days of my life visiting my ancestral home of York. This video was a wonderful return to that magical city … and I will rewatch many times to relive my memories. York is a magical place … and you are a magical tour guide. Bravo!!!
Thank you Todd glad it brings back happy memories.
Dont Wory, ive lived in york my whole life and not seen the whole of it haha
@@kylewren7012 I believe you. There’s so much to see. What a wonderful city! I envy you.
How I adore York. This Programme was such a massive Nostalgia Blast. From Day Trips with my Family, through School Trips, Working in York, Army Leave, Dating... And all those Pubs, Wonderful. Although I have been visited by a lot of Spirits during my time in York, I have never encountered one of York's many Ghosts. A Day just isn't long enough, one needs to stay for as long as possible. Now then, what's the name of that Pub with the Roman excavations inside...
Thank you Tom, so pleased you enjoyed our tour around the city. Indeed whilst you can have a great day in York spending a few or more days is best to see everything without being rushed.
The pub with the Roman excavations is called, appropriately, 'The Roman Bath' 😀
Used to live in Knaresborough. York was a fave place to go. 👌👍The Happy Valley Chinese restaurant at 5m58sec is outstanding.
My favourite English City 🏴 Our son spent 3 and a half years at York StJohn University, which is slap-bang in the City centre. How proud we were to see him graduate in the Minster, receiving his BA(Hons) in History from the Archbishop of York.
Fabulous place, genuine people. We loved to visit, just a beautiful experience. Peaceful, confident, unique in its' character with bags of fascinating history. Along with Newcastle, an absolute MUST.
This is such an entertaining, educational video. Really enjoyed it. Thank you.
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Your tours are so very enjoyable and in my opinion superior to most others coming out of Britain; your voice is nice, not pretentious, your music is varied and well- designed to enhance your videos nicely! Music can make or break a video and yours see right on! You don’t try to talk above/over the music, and your history-sense is right on--not snobby, not affected, and we’re allowed to enjoy the walks with you. Thank you for bringing these amazing images into my home in Montana, as I am an avid “Anglophile” and have been to England twice. After watching your video on Winchester, I’ve decided I have a bucket list; top on that list would be to spend a year in Winchester. I have a particular love and admiration for Alfred the Great and would love to tread the land he walked, for more than just a few days’ vacation time. Thank you!
Thank you for the lovely comment Linda so pleased you enjoy the videos. So nice to hear your feedback, it keeps us going. I hope one day you make it to Winchester for that long stay! 😊
Best video I've seen on York
So kind
This is the beautiful city i was born and still live in im blessed with life ❤
Fascinating! We have nothing like this in Canada as we are so young.
Nothing medieval, but still some interesting history. We really enjoyed finding out about the birth of the national parks in Banff last November.
I absolutely loved this video - wasn't ready for it to be over! Incredible history and buildings certainly makes one feel like they have stepped into a fairy tale. Thank you for another fantastic trip into the past.💕
Glad you liked it Karen such a wonderful place.
York is also all about the present as well. It is a working city, not a theme park.
Great video, we were in York for Christmas 2018 and this refreshed our memories.
Thinking of relocating from Glasgow to York. This video seals the deal!
Hope it works out.
I've been there a number of times, and worshipped in the church opposite the grave yard where Dick Turpin's grave. So many memories.
I watched your video before I came to York to study. I have now been here for 8 months and I love this city so much. I still have so much to explore because with uni I did not have a lot of free time. So, I am back to using your lovely video for references :)
Lovely to hear it is helpful. What a lovely city to study in!
Thank you for an amazing video! I am so happy to have stumbled upon your channel. As a poor American Anglophile, I must live vicariously through travel videos, and yours are just simply wonderful! ❤
Fantastic tour. Slow walking and just the right ammount of talking and info. Very well done.
Thank you so much glad you enjoyed it.
Proud to live here and have it on my birth certificate ❤️
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I’m living in New Zealand now ( 13 years) and this video brought back many memories as I lived the previous 73 years within 15-20 miles of York .Thank you for bringing to light some places and history of which I was not aware…
So pleased to stir the memories of York.
You guys are the BEST. We love your channel so much. This was one of our favorite videos. Thank you so much! ~Adam and Mary in New Hampshire, USA
Hello Adam and Mary, so pleased you enjoy our channel and this video. We really had fun making it. Such a brilliant place to visit. All the best!
I’m blessed to call York my home
York England is amazing,
We agree 😊
What an amazing tour around York. Thank you for showing us, who will never get to the UK, the fabulous sites. Looking forward to your next video.❤️
Thank you
My husband and I had the good fortune to live in England in the mid 1990’s. We booked a lovely B&B and had a very good time exploring ourselves. Your video and commentary does this unique City (because it has a cathedral) justice. The cathedral is a must.. I would go see for myself and he would check out the pubs 😉😊
@@1944JerriMellas I visited York myself in the late 90's what a wonderful place. The hotel I stayed in was allegedly the old house that Guy Fawkes was born in. I don't know how true that is or if it was just a gimmick to make it more popular. But each room was themed to Guy Fawkes and his plot
The Cat Gallery is now the sole organiser of the cat trail
Oh nice. One of the loveliest city in the world. Miss granny Norma Hustwick and her family who hosted me at York during my stay at York back in 2019.
Glad it brought back some nice memories
My family visited York many years ago. Loved it. The Viking exhibit was excellent.
Edit: It’s great that videos of this type exist. They build places up, as opposed to those that want to show what dumps cities are becoming. I’d rather feel happy and exited than depressed.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Many visits to York many years ago nothing has changed its my favorite place. Thank you the video has brought back many wonderful memories. Auckland New Zealand
So pleased that we stirred the memories for you! Thanks for watching.
@15.22 a pic of "The Royal Oak" - my favourite vfm dining and drinking spot in all of York. Please speak if you meet me there . . .
What an amazing video! TH-cam is inundated with travel shows and I normally really struggle to find channels that get all of the best parts of a city. You nailed it with this, stunning visuals and information about the history and culture. Really enjoyed this from start to finish and made me want to go back to York as there was clearly alot I didn't see
Thank you so much for the lovely comment, it was hard video to make and even though we covered a lot there is still more to see in York. Hope you make back. I think it is one of those places you can go again and again and always find something new and interesting to see and do.
Hello from Naples, Florida. An awesome walk around a very beautiful city, York. We enjoyed the walk and history. Thank you so much for sharing this part of the world with us.
Hello there, thank you for the lovely comment so pleased you enjoyed it.
Thank you so much! Helps me remember my hometown so vividly when I’m away. Haven’t lived there since 1991 but visit my my Mum often and miss it lots!
So glad you enjoyed it. 😊
What a fantastic video. Beautiful area. I don't just want to visit there from the US, I want to move there....ah, I wish.
It is an amazing city, I agree we could live there as well! Thanks for watching.
Highly professional 10/10
Thank you
I always love visiting York.
It’s an hours bus ride for me and I love the history and walking the walls with my friend
It is great fun walking the walls. Not many places you can do the same!
A thousand likes are much less than you deserve guys for showing us this beautiful city. Thanks a million. 😘😘😘
Thank you 😊
Bought back some memories. Beautiful place and so much to see. My visit was marred by the dreadful narcissist I was seeing at the time. Loved The Minster and The Shambles though. Enjoying your uploads.
I (Ian) have read, and re-read, so much about York and dreamt so often of visiting. So thank you so much for making this wonderfully interesting video; this will be the closest Igetto walk the streets. What history and architecture! Ian and Sue, Australia
Hello Ian and Sue, thank you for sharing your thoughts on York, so pleased we could bring it to you in Australia. 😊
I just wanted to check this out because I’m going with my school ❤
I went with the school many years ago! Have a great time 👍😊
Thanksss
I was in York when the G8 clashes broke out in Genoa, I'm Genoese, I've been there 3 times, I could live in York too, great place to travel around Yorkshire
Thanks so much for an excellent tour! I’ll be there in October 2022 and can’t wait to find all those cats! 😸
Hope you have a super fun time! Enjoy 😊
I visited York many years ago. It was wonderful! I loved also walking along the ramparts. ❤
What a fantastic video and this will really help us for our holiday. Thank you.
Thank you hope you have an amazing time in York.
Excelente video e infinitas gracias por la traducción, es muy difícil encontrar tours en York en español y tu lo has hecho excelente!
Ahora ya tengo como poder hacer el recorrido en esta maravillosa ciudad. Ya tienes una nueva suscriptora.😊
Wow so much history and so many attractions. I will definitely be adding York to my places to visit in England bucket list! Thank you for this fascinating tour and really appreciate the helpful tips about opening times and saving money! 👍🙂
So glad you enjoyed it and will be adding it to your bucket list!
My daughter and I stayed in the hotel by the train station, fabulous place to visit
If it’s the one I think it is, lovely hotel! 😀
Hands down, my favourite York travel documentary. Beautiful and atmospheric photography (cue cinematography!) and on point, engaging narration. I keep coming back to this one in anticipation of my visit in a couple of months. Amazing work.
Thank you so much, hope you have a wonderful time when you visit.
Took my girlfriend here and she loved York and cant wait to go back again. Thank you for the tour ❤
Get it booked! It is a lovely place to spend some time.
Some of my ancestors came from just outside of York. Watching this video has definitely made me decide that I MUST go and visit York when the Covid situation is safer. As always many thanks for yet another informative video.
So pleased we helped you make that decision. Do hope you are able to visit soon. Wonderful city.
Covid has been and gone people need to move on with there life’s as none of us know how long we have left in our life’s don’t let covid spoil your life !!
At 20:18, the beautiful irreplaceable historic lamp post being knocked down completely by a HGV in March 2022, so lovely to see it in your video, such a shame that is gone now, and the driver did a hit and run.
Oh no what a shame!
Another excellent video! I've always wanted to visit York. Absolutely beautiful with a fascinating history. Can't thank you enough for sharing your journeys with us.😊
Thank you Brandie hope one day you get to visit!
lovely scenes and nostalgic music, enjoyable and relaxing video, thank you.
Many thanks!
Thank you for bringing yorkshire to the light.
Oh I love this part of the country, apart from York that I had visited many times in the past, the rest of Yorkshire was only introduced to me last year and now cannot get enough of it! Lots still to see.
Always a joy to watch your guides. I like the way that they are to the point and not over bearing. Thank you.
Many thanks Gary
Brilliant - Will be visiting York in March 2023 - Now really looking forward to it🤗🤗
Oh have a great time, love this city!
Piekne sa te zabytki angielskie. Warto zobaczyc. Dziekuje serdecznie za interesujący film. Goraco pozdrawiam z Polski🥰❤️
After watching this video I must visit York. Thank you for this video .
Ah so glad you liked the video and want to visit.
I was very surprised when visiting that the York tourism board had a list of the the top 10 Roman walled cities in the country, which failed to mention Chester.
York, my favourite city. Love it! I love your channel, so much to learn.
Thank you for watching glad you like it 😊
Wow, the museum is incredible, almost like a time capsule into which you may walk.
What a fabulous and informative video about the wonderful city of York. I am so very proud that I was born and still live here. Thank you.
That was so fantastic. I was glued to the screen all the way through. I so loved it thanks so much. Thanks so much for taking me along. P,ease stay safe and take care
So pleased you liked it Linda 😊
Жемчужина королевства супер ! ! !😋😎🙂😀
This is simply so well done, I cannot elaborate further. Thank you!!
Well thank you so much, 😊
Thank you for a very interesting trip! It was lovely to see everything through your lens and I bet you had so much fun. Thanks again for a peek into your country and history. From Florida USA ❤️
So nice to know you found it interesting. It’s an explosion of history in York. Wonderful place. 😊
What a great asset you are to the TH-cam channel. Even though I have travelled extensively what a real joy it is to watch such a gifted video. Please continue to make videos just like this one. The United Kingdom is such a treasure. Tourism will help enormously to the recent Brexit. There is no place on earth that resembles the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Nicely done with sites and history as well as including so many practical useful pieces of information. Thank you.
Thank you glad you liked it
If you like normal lunches well cooked might I suggest the Teddy Bear tearooms. Quirky interior but nice normal food.
Thanks for the tip!
Wow! So much history, so much to see a do thank you for the early morning and the late night filming. One of your best videos, brilliant.🦘🐨🦘🐨😷
You are welcome thank you for enjoying it.
Excellent 👍 great videos always ! Would you be doing Haworth one day ?
We are planning a trip to the Yorkshire Dales for early September and that is in the schedule yes! 😊
@@MemorySeekers Thanks 🙏
Beautiful x
Thank you for watching
FANTASTIC, THIS IS THE MOST DETAILED AND COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO BRITAINS MOST HISTORIC , MULTI-LAYERED CITY, OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL. AND IN MY OPINION ( HAVING STAYED THERE FOR A WEEK) SOME YEARS AGO. EVEN THEN, IT WASN'T POSSIBLE TO SEE IT ALL, ALTHOUGH, BEING A HOT AN SUNNY SUMMER WEEK, THE CROWDS SLOWED US DOWN SOME.
Wonderful town it is the symbol of England
Hello I must say very good, I'm a bit from a different story, but in a similar style. Travel to travel! And music is music, It is with you, it is with me. I like it! And most important thing. We have Passion, which some will not take from us! Greetings from faraway Ireland - Lazy foot. You will come to me when you have time for a good rest and fun. Peace 🇮🇪👣 and cheers
A lovely guide, so much to do and see, it seems like a destination suited to a short break to be able to take most of the sights in. My personal favourite was the National Railway Museum.
Yes the National railway museum is very well done and the fact it is free to visit makes it a great family day out!
Micklegate bar would indeed be the the most important bar, it's in the name.
Mickle is from the Old Norse word for "big", so micklegate is the big - or main - street.
Thankyou for sharing enjoyed every moment watching this
One more fascinating video with full of history, streets, buildings, statues, lakes... are so interesting & relaxing. I love the way u exhibit UK so elegantly & wonderfully that anyone would definitely fall in love.. thanks for sharing
Ah thanks Harsha that means a lot we put a lot of effort into the presentation and tips to see the best things. 😀
Thanks guys! What a great video! Very thorough and entertaining. Thank you for noting the cat statues. Charming. As well as what's likely to be closed and what days museums and houses are open Looking forward to the next one.
Our pleasure so pleased you liked it.
We did the walk in June. So many places to see in York...Thank you for the amazing video 😃
Oh, I loved York and miss this city. Must return, no doubt!♥️
Hope you do!
@@MemorySeekers 🙏🙏🙏🙏
So informative. I feel like I was there with you. Well.done.
Thank you so much!
Have a visit to beautiful KNARESBOROUGH sometime another yorkshire town but some stunning views, gorgeous river, mother shiptons cave etc etc have a nosey online is worth a visit for sure mate
Yes we have this on the list to visit, as we live down south of country it’s hard to find the time to make the longer trips up to Yorkshire but really want to explore more. Such beauty there. Thank you for the suggestions.
Terrific tour! York has so many things to see. We loved our visit, (I won't say how) many years ago. I have a photo of the red devil on the corner in the Shambles. As a lover of both Viking and Roman history, it is wonderful to see those places again. It appears the Yorvik Viking Center has upgraded their experience even more. The Yorkshire museum is fantastic, with actual sections of Abbey stone arches coming out of the wall; hope you get to see it one day. Looking forward to your Minster tour. I recall seeing a photo in a shop nearby that showed flames through the rose window from a fire back in the early 1980s. I know you sometimes visit locations outside the UK; Rothenburg ob der Tauber in Germany also has city walls you can walk and a ghost tour; the town dates back to the 13th century. The key to our guesthaus was as long as my hand.
Thank you glad you liked it. Another trip needed to head to the places that were closed including the Yorkshire museum. Does sound very interesting. Horrible seeing the pictures of the minster in flames but they done an amazing job of repairing it.
The York Dungeon has upgraded as well. I remembered going as a kid and in teens and it was waxworks depicting the tortures and punishments and some of them moved. But when I last went a few years ago it was a lot more entertaining with actors telling stories and performing scenes . They even did a mock trial and a lot of audience participation is required
Very good video. I visited for the first time earlier this year and loved it. Beautiful old town. My family heritage is in Newcastle and York and seeing places my ancestors would have seen was special.
All your videos are great. I especially enjoyed this one. Bravo
Lovely to hear thank you!
More tours! I am house bound in the U.S. and love this!
We have over 200 videos on the channel, hope some of the others are still to be seen! All the best.
Love it! England so beautiful! Please take care of yourself heritage!
We both read the book Catherine several times. I hope you will someday do a tour in Lincoln. The love story center around Catherine and the Duke was so interesting. It would be great to see how much has change in that area since I was there.
That was wonderful!!! You do amazing work!
Thank you very much 😊