£1.5m investment to preserve city’s medieval walls
£1.5m is being invested to preserve and protect York’s medieval city walls, renowned as being the "finest and most complete" walls in England.
Stretching over 3.4 kilometres, they are also the longest historic walls in the country. With five main ‘bars’ (big gateways), one postern (a small gateway), one Victorian gateway and 45 towers, it takes around two hours to walk the entire length of the walls.
City of York Council already invests around £100,000 a year on routine monitoring and inspection, but it says more funding... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
