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York's City Walls Fishergate Postern Tower F P T Open Days in 2021 YORK’S CITY Sat 23rd + Sun 24th January = York Residents Weekend Fishergate Postern Tower (FPT) is at the end of Picca- Sat 20th February = York Viking Festival dilly. It was built around 1505 at the end of the walls. Wa- Sat 13th March WALLS ter once filled the gap between this tower and York Cas- Sat 27th March = York Literary Festival tle. It has four floors, a spiral staircase, an unusually com- Sat 3rd April = Easter Weekend plete Tudor toilet and many masons’ marks. The roof was Sat 17th April = Sheriff’s Army added in the late 1500’s; this turned open battlements into Sat 1st May = May Day BH weekend the row of square windows all round the top floor. Sat 29th + Mon 31st May = Late Spring BH This leaflet is produced by the Friends of York Sat 5th + Sat 19th June Friends of York Walls lease the tower from the City of Sat 3rd + Sat 17th July Walls to help you to understand and enjoy York Council. Displays here are about the tower and the Sat 14th + Sun 15th August = York Walls Festival 2021 York’s old defensive walls. We promote the history of the City Walls. Entry is free on our open days, Sat 28th August = Late Summer BH weekend City Walls and open a Tudor tower on them. and we can also open for payment. Planned Open Day Sat 11th + Sat 18th September = Heritage Open Days Look inside this leaflet for a map of the Walls, dates are listed in the next column. For £20, you can Sat 2nd + Sat 23rd October photos and facts about the Walls. Sat 30th October = Halloween Saturday “Sponsor a Stone” in your name or for someone else – Free entry. Open 10:00am to 4:00pm you choose a stone on an external wall of the tower, then The map overleaf shows the route of a great brass stud marked trail - for full details go to the ‘Walls Trail’ pages a certificate and book entries link that stone uniquely to We may have to change these dates and details due to Covid or on our website at - www.yorkwalls.org.uk the name you give [the next column explains how to spon- other restrictions so please check our website; you may find extra sor your own stone]. Currently we need money for better events there too. If you would like to pay for a special opening Or buy our book:- displays, electrics and for roof repairs. Please help FOYW please contact us [using email details below]. "A Walking Guide to York's to carry on returning the tower to fuller community use. City Walls" 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 museum and banks. The slopes are well known for their daffodils in moat portcullis) 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 ONE-WAY clockwise route was introduced in 2020. roads and railways Station Rd Red Tower (at the south during the 19th For details see the City of York Council web page at edge of the land once century River Foss flooded to make the King’s Fishpool) 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 (with museum) 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 route when it is not up on the Walls. copyright of The Friends of York Walls. same Magnesian Limestone. Leaflet sponsors are always welcome. The City Walls. Printed January 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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