Featherstone
Featherstone is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, two miles south-west of Pontefract. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 2011 it had a population of 15,244. Featherstone railway station is on the Pontefract Line.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 11,100 residents
- Description: town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Featherstone, Wakefield” and “Featherstone, West Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Featherstone railway station and Featherstone Library.
Featherstone railway station
Railway station
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Featherstone railway station serves the town of Featherstone in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, operated by Northern Trains, 6 miles east of Wakefield Kirkgate railway station.
Post Office Road
Stadium
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Post Office Road is a rugby league ground in Featherstone, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of rugby league club Featherstone Rovers. The ground's current capacity is 6,954.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ackton and High Ackworth.
Ackton
Village
Ackton is a hamlet in the parish of Featherstone, in the Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. It is near Pontefract. In 1931 the parish had a population of 961.
High Ackworth
Village
Ackworth is a village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, between Pontefract, Barnsley and Doncaster on the River Went. High Ackworth is situated 1½ miles southeast of Featherstone.
Streethouse
Village
Streethouse is a semi rural village in West Yorkshire, England that is situated to the east of Wakefield, the west of Featherstone and the south-west of Castleford. It is also situated on a Roman road. Streethouse is situated 2 miles west of Featherstone.
Featherstone
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Featherstone, Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.67769° or 53° 40′ 40″ northLongitude
-1.35827° or 1° 21′ 30″ westPopulation
11,100Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FTHOpen location code
9C5WMJHR+3MOpenStreetMap ID
node 764706196OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Featherstone” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Featherstone”
- Basque: “Featherstone”
- Bengali: “ফেদারস্টোন”
- Cebuano: “Featherstone (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Featherstone”
- Chinese: “Featherstone”
- Chinese: “費德斯通”
- Chinese: “费德斯通”
- Dutch: “Featherstone”
- French: “Featherstone”
- German: “Featherstone”
- Gujarati: “ફીધરસ્ટોન”
- Irish: “Featherstone”
- Italian: “Featherstone”
- Japanese: “フェザーストーン”
- Kannada: “ಫೆದರ್ ಸ್ಟೋನ್”
- Korean: “페더스톤”
- Ladin: “Featherstone”
- Lithuanian: “Feterstonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Featherstone (West Yorkshire)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Featherstone”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Featherstone”
- Norwegian: “Featherstone”
- Persian: “فیترستون”
- Polish: “Featherstone”
- Portuguese: “Featherstone”
- Romanian: “Featherstone”
- Russian: “Феверстоун”
- South Azerbaijani: “فیترستون”
- Spanish: “Featherstone”
- Swedish: “Featherstone”
- Tamil: “பித்தர்ஸ்டோன்”
- Telugu: “ఫెదర్స్టోన్”
- Turkish: “Featherstone”
- Urdu: “فیتھیرسٹنی”
- Welsh: “Featherstone”
- “Featherstone”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Featherstone”. Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.