Clifford's Tower, York
Stone keep crowning a medieval castle mound, site of a notorious massacre in eleven ninety.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Clifford's Tower in York starts with a single plaque at the foot of the mound, and the unusual thing it chooses to name. It goes back to March eleven ninety, to the city's Jewish community, a local nobleman in debt, and the castle that stood on this spot. Best heard standing by the plaque, looking up at the slope.
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