The Eden Camp history
museum is located on the Malton to
The award winning
museum is set in a Prisoner of War Camp, built in 1942 and is easily accessible
from the A64 or the A170.
This Amazing City Can Be Dated
Back Over 2.000 Years To AD71 When The Romans Where The Lords & Lot From
This Time Can Be Seen Now In The 21st Century From The Wall To The Jorvik Centre & The Impressive York Castle Museum.
JORVIK
CENTRE
www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk
Take A Trip Back
In Time To The Days Of The Vikings, See A Superb Reconstruction of a
Viking Village Of The Period AD975, Come Face To Face With The Vikings &
Smells Of Their village Life.
A fascinating trip back in time to
the London Plague & Black Death When Doctors Would Bleed Their Patients As A Cure.
Find out the truth about Dick
Turpin & his highway holdups.
The Ghosts of York is your nerve
solid this feature will test it with pale ghost like figures appearing from the
darkness.
The Vikings learn the true
sickening bloody story of the Vikings.
Guy Fawkes
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.
The Labyrinth or the lost Roman
Legions you’ll believe your there.
Implements of Torture, hard to
believe when seen but these were actually used.
A Superb Visitor Centre With A Cultural Outlook, This Museum Displays 1,000’s Of
Household Items, Recreating Rooms, Shops, Streets & Even Prison Cells.
It is especially famous For Its
Recreation Of Kirgate In
Victorian Britain, Which Combines Real Shop Fittings & Stock With Modern
Lighting & Sound Effects.
By Far The
Best Visitor Attraction In The
Not Only Is It A Vast Expanse With
Many Attractions Within An Attraction, i:e Steam
Train Rides, Viewing Galleries, Hands On Experiences, Café’s & Shops To
Mention But A Few.
But It Also Home Of The
Famous Flying Scotsman & Has The
If It’s Pleasure,
Business Or A Party Booking,
Probably the best & most
visited cathedral you will find anywhere in the world.
York Minster dating back to the Medieval times has magnificent 14th & 15th
century stained windows, stonework & elaborate tombs to view.
There is a shop, superb towers to
ascend with fantastic views or you can just sit & take in the splendour
whilst having a quite word.
THE
SHAMBLES
The Shambles is the most visited shoping area in
The streets are narrow &
remind me of (there was a crooked man that walked a crooked mile) rhyme.
Higgledy Piggledy.
The street dates back to the Medieval times & derived it’s name from the deep wood
sills at the front of the shops which were called “shamels”.
butchers would use hooks to display there
meat & indeed it used to be a street full of butchers & was known as
Flesh Shamels.
Shambles or The Shambles as it is
now known is a street full of tourism shops & eateries, some say best
visited early or late before the crowds, I think best when its
at its height
MERCHANT
ADVENTURER’S HALL
One of the best preserved timber
guild halls in the country, this grade 1 listed building dates back to the 14th
century.
Take the audio tour for just a
couple of quid (a must)
Roman built 3 miles of circular
wall with towers & keeps to visit, this wall has been immaculately
maintained over the years however a lot of the wall is still the original roman
built wall.
CLIFFORD’S TOWER
Clifford’s
Tower was built by the Romans as a cemetery & rebuilt in 1233 by King Henry
111, the bronze & pottery evidence confirms both Viking & Saxon
occupation.
The fun does not stop here, there
are ghost walks, fine food resteraunts, ancient pubs,
open top bus rides, ghost boat trips, horse & cart rides, many historic
houses, cinema’s, night life & of coarse glorious shopping in quaint period
shops & extremely modern malls.
If I were asked to sum up