Sally Hauser
Fishergate Postern Tower
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Friends of York Walls volunteer Sally Hauser shares all the insider information you need to know about one of Yorkshire’s most prominent historical treasures.
There’s a common saying in York: ‘the streets are gates, the gates are bars and the bars are pubs’. No visit to the city is complete without a wander round the ramparts encircling it. But York’s walls are not just for the tourists. Many residents use them on a daily basis to commute, take exercise or simply soak up the ambience that living so close to almost 2,000 years of history offers.
Published:
March 17, 2021 at 7:29 am
Some battles shocked even contemporaries by the intensity with which they were fought. Towton was such a battle. Regional hatreds and family vendettas ensured it was fought with a ferocity that, together with the large size of the armies involved, made it one of the bloodiest battles on English soil.
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Fought on 29 March 1461, the battle of Towton was the bloody culmination of a series of military engagements in the early part of the Wars of the Roses, the clash for the English throne between the houses of York and Lancaster – with the ultimate victors being the Tudors.