Today’s photo shows the majestic and highly ornate east face of York cathedral/minster from College Green, a sort of pocket park in York. An issue raised in the last blog/post was that of the adaptation of the Roman overlords to the landscape they encountered. to be continued.

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

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

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

A linear green area is likely to be more biodiverse than isolated ‘islands’. Small mammals, insects, song-birds etc can move along the area without having to cross hostile barren environments. To a field mouse or house mouse a road and two four feet wide pavements is unlikely to be ever crossed, even if the other

Another of Hull’s many pocket parks (s.p.b.s); this very nice area in summer when the trees are in leaf, has no name plate. I have asked a couple of local people about its history but gained little as there are a lot of houses locally tenanted out to economic migrants. On my street map of