That happened to me too. I applied for English and got rejected by Cambridge, Edinburgh, Durham and Manchester. I got an offer from Nottingham (which was always my favourite but I saw it as an insurance). I got an interview from Cambridge, got pooled and rejected really late, and Durham didn't even bother interviewing. I was crushed at the time, but three years on and I've just graduated from the three best years of my life in Nottingham, with a place to do a Masters and PGDipEd at the University of Birmingham in September. I'm a firm believer that what happens usually happens for a reason! If you like York I would go for it, because unless you do something amazing and really worth while from an application point of view, wasting a year in the hope you'll get in somewhere better might not look good the next time round.
I know it's annoying, because you probably are Oxbridge material, but English is massively competitive, and all of your choices were extra competitive in general, not to mention in your field! Congratulations on the York offer, and don't let the rejections get you down - of all of my English friends we all experienced very similar applications and it is not a personal thing, it is just the nature of the course!