Essential Hotels

The Royal York Hotel York occupies a fantastic position adjacent to York Railway Station in the beautiful and historic city of York. It is a gorgeous example of Victorian design with an impressive symmetrical exterior, an ornate ironwork staircase and an intriguing electric doorbell system combining buzzers and moving discs. The hotel was built as a railway hotel just a year after the newly opened York Railway Station came into being in 1877. The station was described as ‘a monument to extravagance’. It was fitting that the Royal Station Hotel (as the Royal York was first known) should appear soon after, made from locally sourced yellow Scarborough brick and Tadcaster stone.

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