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York's City Walls Fishergate Postern Tower F P T Open Days in 2021 YORK’S CITY Sat 22nd May = Re-opening after lockdown Fishergate Postern Tower (FPT) was built around 1505. It Sat 29th May = Late Spring BH weekend is at the end of Piccadilly, beside a little gateway at an Mon 31st May = Late Spring BH Monday WALLS end of the walls. Water once filled the gap between this Sat 19th June tower and York Castle. It has four floors, a spiral stair- Sat 3rd July case, an unusually complete Tudor toilet and many ma- Sat 17th July sons’ marks. The roof was added in the late 1500’s; this Sat 14th August = York Walls Festival 2021 turned open battlements into the row of square windows Sun 15th August = York Walls Festival 2021 This leaflet is produced by the Friends of York all round the top floor. Sat 28th August = Late Summer BH weekend Sat 11th September = Heritage Open Days Walls to help you to understand and enjoy Friends of York Walls lease the tower from the City of Sat 18th September = Heritage Open Days York’s old defensive walls. We promote the York Council. Displays here are about the tower and the Sat 2nd October City Walls and open a Tudor tower on them. history of the City Walls. Entry is free on our open days, Sat 23rd October Look inside this leaflet for a map of the Walls, and we can also open for payment. Planned Open Day Sat 30th October = Halloween Saturday photos and facts about the Walls. dates are listed in the next column. For £20, you can Sat 13th November “Sponsor a Stone” in your name or for someone else – Free entry. Open 10:00am to 4:00pm. No need to book. The map overleaf shows the route of a great brass stud marked trail - for full details go to the ‘Walls Trail’ pages you choose a stone on an external wall of the tower, then All openings are subject to Covid 19 restrictions, including social a certificate and book entries link that stone uniquely to on our website at - www.yorkwalls.org.uk distancing. facemasks and limited numbers. Please check our the name you give [the next column explains how to spon- website; where you may also find extra events. If you would like Or buy our book:- sor your own stone]. Currently we need money for better to pay for a special opening please contact us via email below. "A Walking Guide to York's displays, electrics and for roof repairs. Please help FOYW City Walls" to carry on returning the tower to fuller community use. Please help us - ISBN We are an all-volunteer charity that helps people understand 9780992900205 and enjoy York’s old defensive walls. Joining the email list for Scan for Walls Trail Link our monthly newsletter is FREE or to become a full friend make a donation. Please use our website at:- www.yorkwalls.org.uk or alternatively send us an email at: [email protected] We would like to do more but we need more volunteers - as guides at FPT, to help us with fundraise, as walks and talks guides, to join the committee, etc.. Sponsoring a Stone Stones can be sponsored on the website, or by sending an email message to: [email protected] Scan the QR code on your smart phone and go directly to sponsor a stone link. York’s City Walls York’s old City Walls are the most complete in England. They were built mainly in the 13th century on top of older N earth banks. There are a few bits of dry moat left around the St Mary’s Tower (in the Bootham Bar The walls’ longest Monk Bar (with Abbey defensive walls) (with portcullis) remaining bit of dry portcullis) banks. The slopes are well known for their daffodils in moat Lord Mayor’s Walk March and April. At other times they are grassy or covered Bootham with wild flowers. Gillygate Monkgate 200 metres A walk all round the walls (going up on the wall-walk, or just York’s Old using the pavement outside them) takes about 2 hours. It York will take longer if you pause much to look at things like the Multangular Tower Marygate Minster Defensive Jewbury four main ‘bars’ (these are fortified gateways), the 2 lesser Walls Museum bars, the postern (this is a small gateway defended by a Petergate Layerthorpe Gardens tower), the many other towers and details like arrow slits, Lendal musket loops, sculptures and masons' marks. There are Goodramgate Foss Islands Road also good views of many interesting buildings from up on Shambles East of the station the City Coney Street Parliament St the walls. The wall-walk is usually open from 8.00 am till Walls were pierced for Rougier St Peasholme Green Fossgate dusk. A social distancing ONE-WAY - CLOCKWISE ONLY roads and railways Station Rd Red Tower (at the south during the 19th rule is in operation. For details see the City of York Council edge of the land once century River Foss flooded to make the King’s Fishpool) web page at www.york.gov.uk/york-city-centre/city-walls Walmgate Railway Station Micklegate Piccadilly Wheelchairs, pushchairs and dogs are not practical up on Queen St Clifford’s the narrow wall-walk but they are fine in the Museum Gar- Tower dens where you can see York's best Roman walls. These Fishergate include the Multangular Tower which is topped with a row of Postern Tower Nunnery Lane arrow-slits from the time it was made a part of the city walls. Blossom St Fishergate Bar Also here are the ruins of St Mary's Abbey; - including Eng- Walmgate Bar (the only Micklegate Bar Fishergate bar which still has a River Ouse barbican extending from land’s best abbey-defending walls. Paragon Street Victoria Bar its gateway to defend it) The FOYW are concerned with these as well as with the KEY Bishopgate St City Walls, Clifford's Tower and the stretch of medieval cas- The “City Walls Trail”. Brass studs in paths mark this tle wall nearby, all built at about the same time using the This map of York’s City Walls Trail is copyright of The Friends of York Walls. route when it is not up on the Walls. same Magnesian Limestone. Leaflet sponsors are always welcome. The City Walls. Open one way - CLOCKWISE ONLY Issued/Printed April 2021 AF Other medieval defensive walls. Printed by :- Further information is available at www.yorkwalls.org.uk Gardens and green space usually freely open to the 01904 501 524 public; please respect rules that are displayed. Friends of York Walls Charity Number 1159300 www.nettl.com Selected roads and road names. .
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