Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate
In Form’s offices are on the shortest street in York. Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate is a gargantuan thirty-five metres long and is right at the heart of the city centre between Shambles, Pavement and Colliergate.
There are several versions of the story regarding the origin of its rather original name but to our mind the most plausible is as follows...
The street was originally called "Whitnourwhatnourgate" in the early sixteenth century the name roughly meant "neither one thing nor the other" and is said to be slang for "You call that a street?" It gained its current variation on the name some years later when it became the home of York’s whipping post.
Getting here
Walking – follow signs for City Centre and Shambles. Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate is through a covered walkway near the junction between Pavement and Shambles, close to Marks & Spencer.
By car - follow signs for York City Centre. Our offices are situated within an easy walk of the following car parks
- Castle car park, Tower Street, York, YO1 9SA
- Piccadilly car park, Piccadilly, York, YO1 9NX
- Haymarket car park (also known as Shambles car park), Dundas Street, York, YO1 7PG
By train & air – York train station is only a ten minute walk from our offices and offers regular direct services to London Kings Cross & St Pancras International (2 hrs), Leeds (35 mins), Newcastle (1 hr) and Manchester (1 hr 20) including Manchester Airport. Leeds Bradford and Durham Tees Valley airports are less than an hour away by car.
