Photographs of York

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York Minster
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The city was founded and named Eboracum in 71 AD by the Romans. At the end of Roman rule in 415 AD the settlement was renamed Eoforwic by the Angles. When the Vikings captured the city in 866 AD they renamed it Jórvík. After the Norman Conquest, the name gradually evolved to York.
In the Middle Ages York grew as a major wool trading centre and the ecclesiastical capital of the northern province of England. York's location on the River Ouse, in the centre of the Vale of York and half way between London and Edinburgh means that it has always had a significant position. In the 19th century it become an important hub of the railway network (hence the Railway Museum) and a centre for making confectionery with factories owned by Rowntree, Terrys and Craven using sugar from the local sugarbeet industries.