York

York, the county town of Yorkshire, situated at the confluence of the Foss with the Ouse, 188 m. N. of London and 22 m. NE. of Leeds; is an interesting historic town, the seat of an archbishop, and a great railway centre; known among the Romans as Eboracum, it was the centre of the Roman power in the North, relics of which as such still remain; its cathedral, known as the Minster, is one of the grandest in England; it is built on the site of a church erected as early as the 7th century, and was finished as it now exists in 1470; it is 524 ft. in length, and the transepts 250 ft., the breadth of the nave 140 ft., the height of the central tower 216 ft., and of the western one 201 ft. There are other buildings of great antiquity, and the Guildhall dates from the 15th century. It is the military head-quarters of the northern district of England.

Population (circa 1900) given as 67,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Yorick * York, Cardinal
[wait for the fun]
Yniol
Yoga
Yogin
Yokohama
Yokuba
Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Yoni
Yonkers
Yonne
Yorick
York
York, Cardinal
York, Duke of
Yorke, Oliver
Yorkshire
Yorktown
Yosemite Valley
Youghal
Young, Arthur
Young, Brigham
Young, Charles Mayne

Nearby

Antique pictures of York

York in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

Links here from Chalmers

Abbot, George
Abel, Charles Frederick
Abercromby, Sir Ralph
Acca, St.
Aidan
Alan, William
Alcock, John
Alcuinus, Flaccus
Aldred
Allais, Denys Vairasse D'
[showing first 10 entries of 386]