Blake Street is a road in the city centre of York, in England.

The area occupied by the street lay within the walls of Roman Eboracum, but the route was not established until later.

[1] The York Civic Trust claims that it emerged in the Anglian period, as a shortcut between the Porta Principalis Dextra and the Porta Praetoria, now St Helen's Square and Bootham Bar.

There are three main theories of the origin of its name: that "Blake" comes from the words for "white" or "bleaching", or from the Viking name "Bleiki".

[5] In 1732, the York Assembly Rooms opened on the west side of the street, and these survive.