Lendal Bridge

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In 1861, permission was obtained from Parliament for this new bridge to be built, and the Corporation of York requested Thomas Page to design it . His Gothic Revival bridge opened in 1863. Together with the attached tollhouses it is a Grade II listed building. Lendal Bridge links Station Road with Museum Street and thus York railway station with York Minster, and is part of York's Inner Ring Road.

Part of this walk

York Railway history walk

York Railway history walk

York has been a hub of transport communications since the Romans established the city in AD71, linking it to an efficient road system and making use of its waterways. But until the railways were established in the early part of the nineteenth century, people could only travel as fast as their feet or a horse could take them. In the early eighteenth century, a stagecoach journey from York to London took 3 to 4 days, though by the end of the century innovations in road construction and coach design had shortened the journey-time to around 36 hours. This city walk links key places that are key to the Victorian changes that the railways brought to York

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