Ogleforth: Annals of a Street in York

Ogleforth is within the walls of the City of York and covers the sites of Roman legionary barracks. Dominated  by the Church in Medieval times, it included the mansion of the treasurers of York Minster and the parish  church of St John Delpike. After the reformation a grammar school was established here and major secular  properties included the mansion of the Constable family and Sir Valentine Browne’s extension to St William’s  College. In the eighteenth century Ogleforth was the home of gentry and had an assembly room for their  entertainment in the season. The nineteenth century brought industry including wallpaper manufacturing,  book binding, a brewery and coachworks whilst also providing homes for lawyers, tradesmen and city  workers. The twentieth century saw a decline with overcrowded tenements, poorly maintained buildings and  warehouses, but that has been transformed in the last couple of decades and Ogleforth is now a quiet inner city  street about to become entirely residential.