York : Britain

York Travel : Britain
York is the traditional county town of Yorkshire, to which it lends its name. However, it did not form part of any of the three ridings of Yorkshire. The modern City of York, created on April 1, 1996, is a unitary authority and an administrative county in its own right. As well as York itself, it includes a number of neighbouring parishes which formerly belonged to the surrounding districts of Harrogate, Ryedale and Selby. It borders on North Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The city will be 2,000 years old in 2071, and has a rich Roman and Viking history. The historical aspects of York attract a great deal of tourism. York is also known for its chocolate factories, and is home to the University of York.
The city sometimes suffers from flooding.
Places of interest (City Centre)
The Mallard locomotive, National Railway Museum
Archaelogical Resource Centre
Assembly Rooms, a grand Palladian public space designed by Lord Burlington, 1731–32, lies behind a rebuilt 19th century facade.
Bar Convent Museum
Barley Hall
Clifford’s Tower
Jorvik, The Viking City
The King’s Manor
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall
Micklegate Bar Museum
National Railway Museum
National Centre for Early Music, home of the York Early Music Festival [1]
Saint Mary’s Abbey
Treasurer’s House
York Castle Museum
York City Art Gallery
York City Walls (Including Monk Bar Museum)
York Dungeons
York Minster
Yorkshire Museum
Places of interest (Suburbs and Villages)
Archbishop’s Palace, Bishopthorpe
Askham Bogs
Askham Bryan Hall
Elvington Hall
Haxby Hall
Heslington Hall
The Knavesmire
Middlethorpe Hall, Middlethorpe Manor
Osbaldwick Hall
Skelton Hall, Skelton Manor
Vale of York
West Huntington Hall
York Racecourse
Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington
Yorkshire Museum of Farming, Murton
Districts, towns, villages
Acaster Malbis, Acomb, Askham Bryan, Askham Richard
Bishopthorpe, Bootham
Clifton, Copmanthorpe, Crockey Hill
Deighton
Dunnington
Elvington
Fishergate, Fulford
Haxby, Heslington, Hessay, Heworth, Holgate, Holtby, Huntington
Layerthorpe
Kexby, Knapton
Middlethorpe, Moor End, Murton
Naburn, Nether Poppleton, New Earswick
Osbaldwick
Rawcliffe, Rufforth
Skelton, Stockton on the Forest, Strensall, South Bank
Tang Hall, Towthorpe
Upper Poppleton
West Huntington, Wheldrake, Wigginton, Woodthorpe
Notable People from York
Mark Addy (actor)
Alcuin (influential Christian scholar)
John Barry (composer)
Judi Dench (actress)
John Earle (clergyman and author)
Guy Fawkes (Catholic conspirator)
John Flaxman (sculptor and draughtsman)
Christopher Hill (Marxist historian)
Frankie Howerd (comedy actor)
Thomas Morton (clergyman)
Joseph Rowntree and Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (chocolate entrepreneurs and social reformists)
William Hepworth Thompson (classical scholar)
William Tuke, Henry Tuke, Samuel Tuke and Daniel Hack Tuke (campaigners for humane treatment of the insane)
James Hack Tuke (campaigner for famine relief and social reform in Ireland)
Henry Scott Tuke (painter)