Historic York - A Guided Tour Through A Beautiful City

Goodramgate

Formerly known as Gutherungate - from the Danish name Gutherum - Goodramgate stands close to the location of the Roman Domus Palatina, the Palace House where Emperor Severus lived and died in 211AD.

Walking up the street away from the Minster, notice the leaning half-timbered building to your left. Built in 1485, this is now the Four Season's Resuarant but at the turn of the eighteenth century was the home of the Buckle family.

The teenage Marmaduke Buckle was severely crippled and when he found his disability too much to bear hung himself from one of the large oak beams.

Before he died he scratched the inscription 'Marmaduke Buckle /1698/1715/17' into the plaster of the first floor wall. His ghost is said to haunt here still.

There are many good inns and restaurants on Goodramgate and several specialist shops to browse through.