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(warm or cold) Sd., swimming 2d. On Wednesdays in
€very week the baths are reserved for the exclusive use of
ladies at the same charges.
Yearsley Bridge Baths, on the Foss, under the care
and protection of the Corporation, for open bathing.
BANKS.
National Provincial Bank of England, 1, Market
Street, corner of
Spurriergate.
York City and County Bank, 13, Parliament Street.
York and East Kiding Bank (Beckett and Co.), 45,
Coney Street.
York Union Bank, 16,
High Ousegate, at the corner of
Parliament Street.
Yorkshire Bank, 30, High Ousegate, at the corner of
Nessgate.
Savings Bank, St. Helen's Square.
Penny Bank, Merchants' Hall, Fossgate.
YOKK RACES.
These sports take place on Knavesmire, where the committee
have erected stands and every requisite for conducting
the races in the first-rate style of turf affairs.
The meetings are held in May and August. There are also
steeple -chases in March, or early in April. Upwards of
£3,000 are annually added to the stakes by the Race Committee
from their receipts.
This city and neighbourhood have long been famous for
this kind of diversion, being alluded to by Camden (1590).
The modern races were established in 1709, and were formerly
run on Clifton Ings, but, owing to some dispute, were
transferred to Knavesmire.
STRAYS.
The freemen have the exclusive right of depasturing their
cattle on the different strays belonging to the four ancient
wards of the city. They are large tracts of land on each
side of the suburbs, viz.
Micklegate Stray.—Scarcroft (19 acres), Knavesmire
(348 acres), and Hob Moor (67 acres), outside Micklegate
Bar ;
total, 484 acres.
BooTHAM Stray, without Bootham Bar, at the end of
Clarence Street (128 acres).