Bars
...no not the watering hole variety (although there are plenty of those too !) the gates or entrances to York are known as bars
Thethe four principal entrances to the city around the city walls of York are:
Bootham Bar - NW
Monkgate Bar - NE
Walmgate Bar - SE
Micklegate Bar - SW
Just for confusion "gates" are the streets in York!

Fire, Olde Starre Inn, York, UK.
Long queues in front of Jorvik
Our guide "Richard Rigormortis" (dead dick...)
St Mary's Abbey