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About York

York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, including the minster, castle and city walls, all of which are Grade I listed. It is the traditional county town of Yorkshire, and the administrative centre of the City of York district. It is located 27 miles (43 km) north-east of Leeds, 90 miles (140 km) south of Newcastle upon Tyne and 207 miles (333 km) north of London. York's built-up area had a recorded population of 141,685 at the 2021 census.

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You can only imagine he got absolutely hammered in York for Saturday and Sunday, woke up with a heinous hangover on Monday and then struggled back to be cheerful on Tuesday.

from No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 at 00:12:13 · read transcript

Other times York came up

  1. It was written in 1604 by a guy who died in 1605 so he just got in there and yeah it was a story that he sort of said that he reckoned he'd be able to go to and from London and York five times in six days and he ended up managing to do it with one day to spare.

    220: No Such Thing As A Million Dots, 2018-06-08 · listen

  2. These are people who were kind of big when I was younger. The cheeky girls. Oh, yeah. They're now both working as second-hand car dealers. Get out. Yeah. One of them works in a Hyundai dealership in York. The other one works in Lincolnshire. Right. What kind of dealership? I didn't write it down. I think she might have got her sister the job, so I think it might also be Hyundai.

    No Such Thing As Catherine Of Croydon, 2024-10-31 · listen

  3. Several more Henrys, Smith, Calderwood and Andrews became involved, and soon the entire convention descended into a giant fist fight. I wonder how they hoovered up after that. The final line, the brawl was eventually broken up by riot police, led by a man named Henry. Shane. It was Australia. Rosie, you're from York, aren't you? Yes. Okay. I'm proud of Yorkshire lady. I think we get a reputation of being typed.

    No Such Thing As Parachuting Into Hollyoaks, 2023-06-08 · listen

  4. It's just the tube of toothpaste is older than we might think it is. James thought Clement Attlee was the earliest Prime Minister who could have had one, But actually, 1880, a dentist from Connecticut, confusingly he was called Sheffield, launched it. Then it was launched in York, confusingly the place, in 1896. Other people who could have enjoyed it include Adolf Sachs, Friedrich Engels, William Morris and Rutherford B.

    No Such Thing As Clean Victoria, 2025-05-01 · listen

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