York
North Yorkshire, England

 

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York's famed gothic Minster (cathedral) in the background with the medieval - and very walkable - city wall in the foreground. The most popular urban space in Yorkshire is medieval York, for many years England's second city.

 

York Minster and medieval city wall, a fine 3 miles (5kms) long walk.
© Steve Nova/GNU

Originally a Roman fort called Eboracum in AD 71, and much battled over by varied warmongers through the years, York offers fortified, sturdy and stroll-perfect city walls, York Minster - a stupendous gothic edifice (under construction from 1220 AD) with spectacular stained glass windows, other varied medieval structures such as those pictured below, excellent museums and even a sort-of-authentic recreated Viking experience - including sounds and smells - in Jorvik; adjacent Coppergate was a genuine Viking settlement a thousand years ago.

 

 

A timber-frame Tudor period hall in the city.
© Prestong

 

York Tower, aka Clifford's Tower, the 13thC keep and curtain walls of York's first castle.
© Jean Morrison

 

 

A River Ouse booze cruise (trivia: Ouse is derived from Celtic word for water, usa). Next, Yorkshire Pictures. York's original site was chosen for its location at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.
© Prestong

 

 

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