York

York
Type:	City
Location:	Yorkshire
First appearance:	Nightshade
Appearances:	PROSE: Hervoken Halloween [+]Loading...["Hervoken Halloween (short story)"]

York was a city in England.

Geography

York was located in Yorkshire. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot ^[+]Loading...["The Gunpowder Plot (video game)"], PROSE: The Plotters ^[+]Loading...["The Plotters (novel)"]) Marston Moor was between York and Crook Marsham. (PROSE: Nightshade ^[+]Loading...["Nightshade (novel)"]) The York Central Library was located in York. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

History

In 1541, Henry VIII visited York. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Guy Fawkes was originally from York. (GAME: The Gunpowder Plot ^[+]Loading...["The Gunpowder Plot (video game)"])

Carole Rose was a notorious highwaywoman around York until she was hanged in 1735. (COMIC: Malthill Way ^[+]Loading...["Malthill Way (comic story)"])

Fenfoff Fonfeffian's spacecraft crashed in the woods of Malthill, York in 1745. The Eleventh Doctor rescued Fentoff and saw him returned safely home. (COMIC: Malthill Way ^[+]Loading...["Malthill Way (comic story)"])

In November 2001, Tony Blair visited several of York's local businesses and tourist attractions. (AUDIO: Project Twilight ^[+]Loading...["Project Twilight (audio story)"])

In the 21st century, SIGNET HQ was located in York. The organisation fought off a number of alien or supernatural threats loose in the city, including the Yssgaroth, the Galvodon and the Hervoken. (PROSE: Hervoken Halloween ^[+]Loading...["Hervoken Halloween (short story)"])

Undated events

At some point prior to March 2005, Ms Millicent Davies worked at the York Central Library as senior librarian. One day, she caught the Ninth Doctor in the act of defacing a number of biographies with a "Hand-held electronic 'eraser' device" and banned him, even going as far to apply to get the Doctor an ASBO to ban him from all UK libraries. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? ^[+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])

Despite warnings from Time Travelling Richard Nixon concerning impacts to continuity, a thermonuclear missile under the care of SIGNET once exploded and decimated York following a fight between the Noodle Man and Nrai, (PROSE: I'm So Normal I'm So Normal I'm So ^[+]Loading...["I'm So Normal I'm So Normal I'm So (short story)"]) opening a space-time rift there. (PROSE: The Case of the Noodle Man ^[+]Loading...["The Case of the Noodle Man (short story)"]) This reality later healed following the Noodle Man's defeat. (PROSE: Taste the Noodles of Dracula ^[+]Loading...["Taste the Noodles of Dracula (short story)"])

References

Having landed on Starfall, and incorrectly assumed they were in 18th century Bristol, the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler hopped on the back of a steam-powered vehicle which Rose thought might be going to either Carlisle or York. (PROSE: The Resurrection Casket)