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Walks through the city of York, by R. Davies, ed. by his widow
Walks through the city of York by R Davies ed by his widow Author:Robert Davies Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 42 No. II. From St. Leonard's Cloisters To Clifford's Tower. iHOSE among my present audience who did me the honour to accompany me on my antiquarian wal... more »k last February may probably remember that we set out from the Maudlin Spital, near Burton Stone,—that passing through Bootham bar and along the streets of Peter- gate and Goodramgate we went through Monk bar,—and that we terminated our ramble at Jewbury, the antient burial- place of the Jews on the banks of the river Foss. On the present occasion I have to beg you will suppose yourselves to have met me within the cloister or ambulatory of the antient Hospital of St. Leonard, which now forms one of the ornaments of the grounds of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. From this spot I propose that we shall proceed along the streets now called Lendal, Coney Street, Spurriergate, Nessgate, and Castlegate, and perhaps I may be able to conclude my observations with a notice of Clifford's Tower. The length of the proposed journey is not alarming, but possibly our progress may be less expeditious than we anticipate, and in that case we need not pursue it to the end ; for our mode of travelling possesses this superiority even over the boasted advantages of the railway system : we can stop our train, and finish our journey, at any moment or at any placethat may be agreeable to our inclination, or suitable to our convenience, without consulting either engineman or stoker. Read to the Institnte in St. Saviour's Gate, 19th December, 1854.— " This was my second reading in public.—R. D." The street now called Museum Street, which is adjacent to the cloister or ambulatory 'of St. Leonard's Hospital, was recently known by the name of Back Lendal. It was originally a lane leading from Blake Street towards the river Ouse, along ...« less