City Walls and Towers

As spring is upon us here in York, I thought it would be nice to include some various pictures of all the daffodils and the city walls. Here's a map to give you a bit of an idea of what the city is like. The college campus is at the top of the map where the walls meet at a ninety-degree angle.


There are four major gates for the city: Bootham Bar, Monk Bar, Goodramgate Bar and Walmgate Bar (shown respectively). Though they are gates, they are called bars because that was the term from the Vikings, which is why in York a street is a gate, a gate is a bar and a bar is a pub.



As well as the bars, there are also a number of towers. Seen here are the Red Brick Tower, Robin Hood's Tower, Victoria's Turret and Lendal Tower.



To finish it off, here's a picture some of the wall segments with daffodis on the embankments. (As always but especially with the panoramic, click on the image for a larger view.)