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Alan Godfrey Maps @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social

What you’re seeing isn’t just a boring wall, a boundary between a charitable school for impoverished children and an upper-class park. In 2025 you can still see these restored Medieval walls, built upon #Roman foundations in the main, which in turn were built on earlier settlements... 2/3

Sample from our York Marygate 1851 map. It shows a city wall broadly splitting our image in half with a neat park on one side and the city on the other, a Ragged School for poor children sits just over the road from the wall. Printed map is clearer than sample.
aug 20, 2025, 9:14 am • 0 0

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Alan Godfrey Maps @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social

What you’re seeing is thousands of years of continuity. Boundaries have always existed, for land or wealth, but some Victorians, Romans, Celts & our contemporaries know that knocking a gate in somewhere can be a good thing for everyone regardless of background, even if the walls are older than old.

Sample from our York Marygate 1851 map. It shows a city wall broadly splitting our image in half with a neat park on one side and the city on the other, a Ragged School for poor children sits just over the road from the wall. Printed map is clearer than sample.
aug 20, 2025, 9:14 am • 2 0 • view