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In 1667 land was purchased for a burial ground on Bishophill, south of the river between the present Albion Street and Cromwell Road. Lindley Murray, the author, and John Woolman, the American Quaker who died of smallpox whilst visiting York, are bur...

In 1855 land for a new burial ground was purchased by the Friends next to The Retreat.

Former Primitive Methodist chapel built at Acomb Green in 1846 and converted to a Friends meeting house in 1912. A meeting was started in the Foresters' Hall, Acomb, in 1906. Four years later this was recognized as the Acomb Allowed Meeting. The ...

Friends meeting house, built in 1817, on the site of an earlier house which was in use from 1674. The current Meeting House is the latest in a long line of structures constructed by the Society of Friends (Quakers) on this site since 1673. The bu...

New Earswick, a model village designed by Joseph Rowntree, dates to 1903 and lies on the northern edge of York. An Allowed Meeting opened in 1917, within York Monthly Meeting, which met in the Folk Hall. It became a full Preparative Meeting a decade ...

The precinct wall of the Franciscan Friary is clearly marked in this location on the 1852 OS Plan. Most of this length of wall shown on the 1852 plan has been lost. However, a section remains within the basement of the Friends Meeting House. Thi...

Former Wesleyan Methodist non-conformist chapel built in 1821 and superseded by Trinity chapel in 1879. Visible on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey plan c.1898. Converted to shops and dwellings and refronted in 1881. Recently used as Ebor Carpet Wa...

An early 18th century garden wall which is part of the street scene in a Conservation Area. The house is listed. Nominated for inclusion on the Local List of Heritage Assets.

House built circa 1810, with late 19th-early 20th century alterations, now in use as a political club.