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Green Places 28.

A very informative website entitled ‘Roads of Roman Britain, A Gazetteer’ gives lots of details about Roman roads in different regions. The Yorkshire region is shown as having had many. One interesting reference given is where the Rev. E. Maude Cole contributed an article on the Roman Road from Stamford Bridge to Brough in the […]

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Green Places 27.

Today’s photo shows part of Brough Haven as seen from the end of south Humber bank having walked from Crabley Farm. It was in this immediate area that the Roman legions in the first century chose as their docking point having crossed the Humber Estuary from the point now called Old Winteringham. To what extent

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Green Places 25.

The Hospitium is a detached building between the ruined nave of St. Mary’s Abbey and the Rive Ouse. The photo above shows its south gable end. The building looks very pristine from this angle because the two southern-most bays were added in the 1930s. Elsewhere the walling of the ground floor is of 15th century

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Green Places 24.

Today’s photo shows a point in Museum Gardens, York at the west end of the standing ruins of St. Mary’s Abbey church. Firstly an apology. The Multangular Tower mentioned yesterday was not built as pat of the perimeter wall of St Mary’s Benedictine Abbey but is in fact the largest standing remnant of the Roman

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Green Places 23.

Today’s photo shows the part of the ‘Multangular Tower’ and a bit of the City’s public library, in the corner of the perimeter wall of the ruined St Mary’s Abbey, York. Yesterday took a trip to York on the A47 bus service, which along with the A46 and one or two others comprises a half-hourly

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