Micklegate Bar Museum in York

Micklegate Bar Museum in York

Micklegate Bar Museum is a very wonderful museum. The museum is a major attractions point in York city. The 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. You can stay and search the hotels in York UK. 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.