Actual Education Interactive Guided Tours

York's History - The City Walls
Due Spring 2010

York is one of the most popular tourist destinations in England and this virtual tour CD-ROM takes you around one of its most famous landmarks - the famous York City Walls. This comprehensive and unique virtual tour features four seperate Interactive Guided Tours which take you right around the Walls and also around the walls of St Mary's Abbey.

Features

• Over 50 panoramic scenes
• Each image taken along the route has 'full screen' capability
• Each significant part of York's historic walls is covered in this tour
• The Bars are given extra coverage with their own special features page
• This tour consists of detailed, interesting text and accompanying audio
• This tour acts as the perfect accompaniment to an actual visit to York's City Walls

York City Walls
Tour 1
Barker Tower to Skeldergate Postern

Our guided tour around York's famous walls starts near to York Station at the Barker Tower. This sits next to Lendal bridge, on the banks of the River Ouse. We walk along the walls, past York Station to Toft's Tower. The section of wall after corner tower leads us on nicely to Micklegate Bar, the principal gateway to the South. This section of our tour covers the walls to the south of the Ouse. We explore the romantically named 'Bitchdaughter Tower' (ok - it wasn't romantic!) and the mound which is all that is left of Baile Hill before finishing at the relatively modern Skeldergate Postern.

York City Walls
Tour 2
Fishergate Postern to the Red Tower

We've now crossed the River Ouse and join the Wall at Fishergate Postern. This impressive tower is soon left behind as we make our way round to Walmgate Bar. This is probably best preserved gate on the City Walls because it has it still has its barbican and we explore this additional defence in some detail. Eventually we come to the unusual little Red Tower at the end of this section of our guided tour.

York City Walls
Tour 3
Layerthorpe Postern to Bootham Bar

We begin the third part of our tour at the tiny little Layerthorpe Postern this leads us on to the stunningly well preserved defences on the way to Monk Bar. We are able to see the fabulous York Minster from this section of wall as well as the Treasurer's House and other fine buildings. After visiting Monk Bar we head up to the intriguingly named Robin Hood Tower before completing the final stretch of the City Walls at Bootham Bar.

St Mary's Abbey Walls
Tour 4
Bootham Bar to Lendal Bridge

The section of Wall between Bootham Bar and Lendal Tower is no longer in existance so we take the chance to head across the road and explore the walls around the old St Mary's Abbey. Our tour finishes at Lendal Tower, just across the River Ouse from our original starting point of Barker Tower.

See some screenshots from our panoramic images at the York's History - The City Walls Screenshot Gallery.

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(Panoramic scene from our "York's History - The City Walls Guided Tour". Use your mouse to control this scene. Double click to access the 'full screen' feature.)

(Video preview of our "York's History - The City Walls Guided Tour")

(Click the 'play' button to see a slideshow of screenshots from our "York's History - The City Walls Guided Tour" CD-ROM)

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(Our "York's History - The City Walls Guided Tour" CD-ROM cover)

You may also be interested in the following Interactive Guided Tours;

The York's History Collection - Interactive Guided Tours of York's Old Town and York's famous snickelways topics.

The City Walls Collection - Interactive Guided Tours of the town walls around Edinburgh, Chester and Berwick-upon-Tweed.