Ancient_and_modern_York_a_guide

112 ANCIENT AND
which, till the year 1829, was guarded by a postern that
spanned the road, and adjoined the wall. The walls
sweep northward from Layerthope bridge to Monk Bar.
They are in a state of good preservation; but the public are
excluded from them ; as they are in the hands of the
occupiers of the adjoining property, within the walls.
From Monk Bar the walls extend in a north-west direction
to Bootham Bar, and are in perfect order ; but there is
no public walk thereupon. A good view of them is
obtained from the Lord Mayor's Walk. At the righthand
side of Bootham Bar the wall terminates abruptly ;
a fine approach to the city, called St. Leonard's-place,
being made there. The walls run from the back of St.
Leonard's-place, by the old palace, called the Manor, to
the Roman multangular tower, in the Museum gardens.
The wall here forms an angle, and, with the exception of
the interruption occasioned by the gateway to the Museum
gardens, is continued from thence to Lendal tower, which
rises from the banks of the river Ouse, opposite Northstreet
Postern. We have now made a complete circuit of
the walls ; having returned to the point from whence we
set out, the measurement whereof, as made in 1664 and
1665, by Baine, who then took a survey of them, we shall
quote from Torr's Antiquities. The city is in circumfer
ence, two miles and almost three-quarters ;* which is thus
measured, viz. :—
Perches.
From the Red Tower to Walmgate Bar - ... 60
From thence to Fishergate Postern 99
From thence to Castlegate Postern 58
From thence to Skeldergate Postern 84
From thence to Micklegate Bar - - - - - 13S
From thence to North-street Postern - 140
From thence to Bootham Bar ... - 86
From thence to Monk Bar - - - - - -116
From thence to Layerthorpe Postern 66
From thence to the Red Tower ----- 80
Total - - - - 875
Or, 2 miles, 5 furlongs, and 192 half yards, surveyed 6th of February, 1664, and
Hth of August, 1665, by Joseph Raine.
* The old walls of the city of London measured but three miles.