Entries for the tag ‘Walmgate’
📌 Street in central York, fish and cattle market in the Middle Ages, saw action during the 1644 siege of York, considerable clearance in the 20th century. 
- 7 March 1615: A great thaw begins in York – heavy flooding along the Ouse and Foss, followed by four months drought
- 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday, Parliament and the Scots breach York’s walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower
- 2 September 1686: John Reresby describes his organisation of the York garrison
- 23 February 1832: The son of the landlord of the Five Lions Inn, Walmgate, York is carried across the River Foss by a runaway Galloway pony
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