Dean's Park
Leafy lawn beside a Gothic cathedral, with a twelfth-century palace arcade and Minster views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Dean's Park in York follows the money through the lawn beside the Minster, from a sixteenth-century archbishop with a son to provide for to Sir Arthur Ingram, a London candle-maker's son who became a vast Yorkshire landowner. You'll hear how a customs officer turned moneylender bought his way into the Crown's government, and what one critic called him. Stand by the row of round stone arches on the lawn.
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