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• Welcome to York - Information on York.A leading visitor destination
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• Around York - City of York Council website.
Information on getting there, tourism and heritage.
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• National Railway Museum - Our collection, including 103 locomotives and 177 other items of rolling stock, tells the railway story from Rocket to Eurostar.
We are home to a wide range of railway icons and literally millions of artifacts, including Mallard - the world's fastest steam locomotive.
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• Jorvik Viking centre - Discover what life was really like over 1000 years ago, meet our Viking residents, see over 800 items uncovered here, and journey through a reconstruction of actual Viking-Age streets.
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• York Castle Museum - Experience life as a Victorian. Walk down cobbled streets and peer through windows of shops long gone. Take a journey through four hundred years of life in Britain, from parlours to prisons, marriages to the mill house. Discover a city at war and stumble into an underworld of highwaymen.
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• Yorkshire Museum and Gardens - Walk in the footsteps of Romans and Vikings. See beasts turned to stone from a time when dinosaurs ruled the planet. Discover the jewels of Kings and the spoils of war. Welcome to Yorkshire Museum, one of England's first and finest.
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• York Minster - One of Europe's finest cathedrals, in the heart of northern England.From Roman times to the present day the site on which York Minster stands has been at the very centre of England's religious and political life.
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• Yorkshire Tourist Board - Information on a wider area from The official Yorkshire Tourist Board website.
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• York Maze - Carved out of 1.5 million growing maize plants and covering the area of 15 football pitches,York maze is thought to be the largest maze in the world!!
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• York.co.uk - Directory of links for York.
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• Dick Turpin, Infamous Highwayman. - Dick Turpin is probably the most famous highwayman of all. Mention the name to most people, and they will tell you he was a daring and dashing highwayman who famously rode from London to York on his faithful mare, Black Bess, in less than 24 hours. Finally being hung on York racecourse for highway robbery.
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• Guy Fawkes, Britain's most notorious traitor. - In 1605, Guy Fawkes and a group of conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
And the rest as they say is history...
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• The University of York - Information on the University of York.
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• The Press - For full coverage of all the local news stories. Includes a special page for ex-pats.
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