Railway carriages inside the walls near Lendal Bridge

Cross the bridge and continue along the wall-walk, which takes us around the city. Outside the walls on your right you will see a little graveyard, which contains the victims of the cholera epidemic of 1832. The epidemic claimed 450 lives. According to one newspaper of the time the "pestilence silently ... entered the city, and took up its deadly stand ... in the dwellings of the poor". Although there are only twenty gravestones, many more were buried here but the graves of the poor remain unmarked. In 1841 a railway station opened within the city walls to your left. In order to get trains into the city, the entire wall and rampart was demolished and a huge arch built to allow the wall-walk to be restored. As traffic grew more lines were needed. A second arch was built in 1845 and in 1876 a third was cut to provide access to the city centre from the new railway station, which opened outside the walls, in 1877.

At the south-western corner of the city wall stands Tofts Tower, which was blown up by the Scots in 1644 but rebuilt the following year.