Our four main ‘Bars’ are gateways or barriers so the Bar Walls are the walls that run between the gateways.  At nearly two miles York’s medieval City Walls are the best in England.  The circuit is virtually complete; only where the wall should join Bootham Bar is a...

There are only four left in England, and two of those are in Yorkshire, what am I talking about?  Why Bridge Chapels or Chantry Bridges of course! These chapels were built in the medieval period to allow prayers to be said for travellers and for departed souls, but...

The English Thoroughbred horse can be traced back through bloodlines and the General Stud Book to the efforts of one Yorkshireman, Thomas Darley. He managed to smuggle out of Syria, with help from friends on the warship HMS Ipswich, a Bay stallion, 15 hands high, “of...