Discovering York – Easy

Walk

A very leisurely stroll through the cobbled streets of York approx. 3 miles long which you can complete whilst stopping for shopping or something to eat and explore the splendour of York Minster. Stop to visit the York Dungeon along the route or alternatively the Jorvik Centre and the Railway Museum are detours you can make if you want to make it a full days visit. Refer to the map above if you stray off the route of the walk.

Getting there

Either by train or car - for a relaxing trip take the train from Middlesbrough train station which stops at York station and is cheap for a day return. If travelling by car just follow the A19 through Thirsk and this will take you directly into York. There is parking just outside the main city at Marygate which is the starting point of the walk

The Walk

Leave the car park and walk into Marygate. Turn left and cross the road and enter Museum Gardens. Follow the path by the observatory and exit by the lodge.

Route of the Discovering York walk

Turn left and then left again towards the library. Go left and through a gate alongside the library. Go up the steps and through a gate in the wall. At the

bottom of the slope, turn right and follow Abbey Wall into Exhibition

Square.

Cross at the traffic lights and go through Bootham Bar. A few paces on your left take a passageway beside The Hole in The Wall pub turn right down Precentors Court. By the Minster go left through the gate. Follow the path left to the Minster Library

Minster Library

Bend left through the gate and along the road. Turn left by the postbox down Chapter House Street, bending right into Ogleforth. At the crossroads turn right then go left through an archway opposite The National Trust Café.

                           

 

Bear right into Bartle Garth which bends left. At the T junction turn right then left down Spen Lane. Opposite

Hilary House go right along St Saviourgate. At the T junction turn left then right at the crossroads. Next to Jones shoe shop on your left take a passage called Lady Peckitts Yard.

Go under the buildings then turn left to Fossgate. Turn right and cross the

bridge. Turn right on Merchantgate. At the T junction cross and take the

walkway beside the bridge, "Castle Area" into the car park by Cliffords

Tower.

 

Bend right and go to the right of the Hilton Hotel. Just after the church on your right, go left down Friargate. Right along

Clifford Street and left by the York Dungeon.

York Dungeon

At the riverside turn right, ascend the steps by Ouse

Bridge. Turn right and at the traffic lights turn left by the

Spurriergate Centre. By Natwest bank go right forking left into Feasegate. Go ahead to cross Parliament Street and pass St

Sampsons church.

St Sampsons Church

 

Keep ahead at the crossroads into Goodramgate. After about 50 yards go left via a gateway into the Holy Trinity churchyard, and exit by a passage to

the left of the tower, to Low Petergate. Turn right and then left into Grape

Lane. Where it bends left, turn right down the narrow Coffee Yard into

Stonegate.

Go left to St Helens Square, turn right by Lloyds TSB. Keep ahead at the crossroads back to Exhibition Square. At the traffic lights turn left up Bootham. Turn left down Marygate by the circular tower back to the car park.