City of York: historic urban core

York is a 2000-year old continuously inhabited, historically important English city, second only to London in importance for much of this time.

York is submitted for listing as a World Heritage Site as the outstanding example of urbanisation in north-western and northern Europe initiated by the Romans and developed through successive influences (Anglo-Saxon, Viking-age, Norman) to the present day. It is the pre-eminent example of such a city because the coherence of its surviving buildings and townscape, augmented by well-preserved archaeology below ground, provides an unparalleled physical record of the fusion of successive cultures.  This dynamic, well-managed city contains well-preserved evidence from all periods and as such provides exceptional testimony to the evolution of the urban culture of cities in north-western and northern Europe from the Roman arrival to the present day.

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