Sunday, September 17, 2017
York, England
My last day in York. Today I saw a
castle, museum and a cathedral.
First was a walk along the wall to
Clifford's Tower. York is one city who's old midieval wall still
exists:
Today, you can walk along the top of it
for about 3 miles. I stayed on the ground, though, and followed it
to, what today is known as, Clifford's Tower:
This is what remains of a 13th
century castle. It started at a Norman motte and bailey fort, like
Warwick Castle. It was a wooden fort on a mound with an enclosing
palisade. The palisade is gone and the wooden fort was rebuilt of
stone in the 1200's.
Next, it was off to the Yorkshire
Museum where they have an exhibit of viking artifacts. York was in
the part of England that was conquered by vikings in the 900s. By
1000, it was the capital of viking England. It seems that anywhere
you dig, you find viking stuff. One of the best was this helmet:
Then, after lunch, it was a tour of the
York Minster. That's the big cathedral in town. It dominates all
the views around town:
It started as a Norman cathedral that,
starting in the 1200's was slowly converted into a larger Gothic
Cathedral. As usual it is stunning inside:
At no part of the day was I more than
about ½ mile from the hotel. It's a really compact town. Tomorrow,
I take the train to London. The train station is next door to the
hotel and I can take the subway from the train station in London to
my hotel there which apparently is next door to a subway station. So
I am returning the car here. There is an Enterprise office in the
train station.
All very convenient.
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