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Introduction
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IntroductionYork, from its foundation, has never ceased to have the appearance of a fortified city. The walls of the Roman station, Eboracum, were wholly on the north bank of the Ouse. What changes they underwent in the succeeding British, Saxon, and Danish times, cannot now be ascertained.
In the time of William the Conqueror, they enclosed two Castles; one, it was thought, on each side of the river; but this is doubtful. The walls are not characteristic of any particular age; but the archway of the gates appears to belong to the Norman period. The barbicans, which were, probably, added in the reign of Edward III., have been removed from three of the gates.
The Castle itself has been largely dismantled with only a few remains left intact. Some of these remains were for a time converted into the county prison, and the courts of justice for the county.
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