Main monument record for the Foss Navigation. The Foss Navigation Company was formed in 1793. Under the 1793 Act of Parliament, the Company had "power and authority to purchase Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments … and to make and maintain a navi...

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There has been a pub on this site since at least 1822. The present building retains original features and is an important building contributing to the street scene on the approach to York. The outbuildings, formerly stables, are an important relic of...

Fragmented cropmark remains of a possible Iron Age or Roman field system mapped from aerial photographs.

Probably founded in 1230 in an unknown location in the city. They were granted timber for building in 1236 and 1237. They were granted a site between the castle and the River Ouse, within the city wall, circa 1243. They acquired more land, eventually...

Terrace of three houses, now flats. Nos 12 and 14, built in the early 18th century; later alteration. Exterior: 3-storey front on semi-basement; 7 windows. 3 windows behind grilles in basement. 3 doorcases, of plain pilasters on tall pedestals, wi...

Site of postern demolished circa 1840.

Friar's Garden shown on Horsley's Plan 1694. Area of garden not exact. Originally part of Dominican Friary (MYO4168). In 1380 the garden of the Friars Preachers was mentioned in a document. By the time of the Dissolution it was recorded as 1 acre (ga...

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In 1667 land was purchased for a burial ground on Bishophill, south of the river between the present Albion Street and Cromwell Road. Lindley Murray, the author, and John Woolman, the American Quaker who died of smallpox whilst visiting York, are bur...