Long Weekend Itinerary For English History, Culture & Ghost Stories

I’ve never been the kind of guy who’s content to park my butt in front of the TV with a brew and tune out.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for relaxing with a movie or binge-watching a Netflix series, but it’s got to be educational as well as entertaining. Lately, every historical docudrama I’ve seen somehow includes the city of York in Northern England. Many commanding powers took a shot at ruling the unruly people of York, from the Romans, Saxons, Vikings, and Normans, to medieval English monarchs. With an entangled history so coalesced, I figured present-day York would be pretty interesting.

I was right.

Visiting York feels like strolling through a history book filled with tall Roman walls, Norman castles, quaint medieval buildings, Victorian railways, and narrow cobblestone streets lined with picturesque Georgian townhouses.

For every historic building, there’s a story of conquest, war, or rivalry and even a ghost story or three. York’s backstory had no…