White Cat - Golden Fleece, York, Great Britain.
N 53° 57.536 W 001° 04.792
30U E 625980 N 5980659
The life size White Cat - protruding from a medieval pub called the Golden Fleece. One of many cat statue's, dotted around the City of York's old buildings.
Waymark Code: WMK9VE
Location: North East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/06/2014
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Most people visiting this old haunted pub, miss the white cat protruding from the wall above the second floor window, Directly above the much photographed Golden Fleece pub sign.
"The York Cat Trail provides both visitors and locals, young and old with the opportunity to find and photo the numerous statues of cats which are on York's old buildings.
These were put there to frighten away rats and mice. The statues were also thought to ward off wandering evil spirits and to bestow good luck and good health on people. The older statues are thought to date back to the Victorian Era whilst those removed or rotted are believed to have origins in medieval times, when a rat may have helped carry the bubonic plague.
If a Cat statue scared such vermin away then it was indeed your lucky day! Enjoy the trail." Text Source: (
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