The medieval walls (built over the Roman walls) still survive around the town centre along with the timber framed Tudor houses and the narrow little cobble stone streets (left) with an atmosphere of the late middle ages. (York is definitively among the first 10 places to visit in England.)
Jorvik was a Viking-Age city in the place of York around AD 975. You can see the reconstructed (based on archaeological excavations) city in the Jorvik Viking Centre - along with this kind of guys.... (middle)
Bottom right: Locomotives lined up at the National Railway Museum, established on its present site in 1975. It is now the largest museum of its type in the world, with 750,000 visitors annually.
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