York City Walls
Medieval stone ramparts with gatehouse bars and a raised wall-walk circling the historic centre.
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About this audio guide
This guide to York City Walls follows William Etty, a York baker's son turned celebrated and faintly scandalous London painter, through the eighteen twenties and thirties. It finds him writing home to the local newspapers while gatehouses, barbicans and posterns were coming down around the city. Railway engineers, the city Corporation and the Victorian restorers all turn up. Best heard up on the wall-walk, with a hand on the parapet.
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