York
Micklegate Bar Museum
Royal gateway
Micklegate
York, YO1 6JX
Phone: +44 1904 63 4436
Website | EmailMicklegate Bar Museum is a good place to start the York Walls Walk. Enter the first floor via the trapdoor and you will discover an insight into the civil and social history of York. The second floor finds you confronted with the chilling sight of severed heads. Check out the turret cell wherein the Jacobite Traitor, James Mayne, awaits execution at the York Tyburn following the battle of Culloden in 1746. His head and that of Will Conolly were apparently left to rot for seven years on Micklegate Bar until one stormy night they were taken down and stolen by a young tailor in the year 1754 - what he did with them nobody knows!
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