• Date and time: Sunday 1 June 2025, 10.30am to 11.45am
  • Location: In-person only
    Clifford's Tower (Map)
  • Admission: £6, booking required

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Event details

Have you faced the fiery poo-bison? Been chased round a garden by an escaped bear? Or lugged a rotting Arctic whale round town on a cart? No? Then you've obviously not been on The Filthy, Beastly Tour of York.

Join Fossiliam (aka Liam Herringshaw) for a family-friendly guided walk - the turd-best tour of the city!

Suitable for ages 6+.

The guided walk starts below Clifford’s Tower and finishes in York Museum Gardens.

This walk is one of a number of York’s Hidden History tours on offer during the Festival. You may also enjoy 'York’s Hidden History of Flooding' on Friday 6 June and 'York: Present and Future Flooding' on Sunday 8 June. 

Image credit: Wikimedia Commons/Worksop Bestiary, Morgan Library

About the speaker

Fossiliam is Dr Liam Herringshaw, a palaeontologist, writer and Earth science tutor in the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of York. Together with Dr Simon Rogerson he leads York's Hidden History walks.

Partners

Air, Fire, Earth and Water

Venue details

  • Not wheelchair accessible