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Although much restored, the city's superb walls date mainly from the fourteenth century, though fragments of Norman work survive, particularly in the gates (or "bars"), whilst the northern sections still follow the line of the Roman ramparts. Monk Bar at the northern end of Goodramgate is as good a point of access as any, tallest of the city's four main gates and host to a small Richard III Museum (daily: March-Oct 9am-5pm; Nov-Feb 9.30am-4pm; GBP2; ), where you're invited to decide on the guilt or innocence of England's most maligned king. For just a taste of the walls' best section, take the ten-minute stroll west from Monk Bar to Bootham Bar , the only gate on the site of a Roman gateway and marking the traditional northern entrance to the city. A stroll round the walls' entire two-and-a-half-mile length will take you past the southwestern Micklegate Bar , long considered the most important of the gates since it, in turn, marked the start of the road to London. It was built to a Norman design reputedly using ancient stone coffins as building stone, and was later used to exhibit the heads of executed criminals and rebels. The engaging Micklegate Bar Museum (daily 9am-5pm; GBP1.50) occupies a surviving fortified tower.
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