Ackworth
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 8,100 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Ackworth, Wakefield” and “Ackworth, West Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Stephen and Ackworth School.
Ackworth School
School
Photo: Stanley Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ackworth School is a private day and boarding school located in the village of High Ackworth, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England.
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. Post Office Road is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ackworth.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pontefract and Hemsworth.
Pontefract
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Pontefract is a market town in West Yorkshire. It's one of the "Five Towns" east of the city of Wakefield, and a commuter town for Leeds. in 2021 its population was 40,000.
Hemsworth
Town
Hemsworth is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire it had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census. Hemsworth is situated 3 miles southwest of Ackworth.
Featherstone
Town
Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Featherstone is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ackworth.
Ackworth
- Categories: civil parish and village
- Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Ackworth” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ackworth (Mendebaldeko Yorkshire)”
- Basque: “Ackworth”
- Bengali: “অকওর্থ”
- Catalan: “Ackworth”
- Cebuano: “Ackworth”
- Chinese: “Ackworth”
- Chinese: “阿克沃斯”
- Dutch: “Ackworth”
- Esperanto: “Ackworth”
- French: “Ackworth”
- German: “Ackworth”
- Gujarati: “એકવર્થ”
- Ido: “Ackworth, West Yorkshire”
- Ido: “Ackworth”
- Irish: “Ackworth”
- Japanese: “アクワース (ウェスト・ヨークシャー)”
- Japanese: “アクワース (西ヨークシャー)”
- Japanese: “アクワース”
- Kannada: “ಆಕ್ವರ್ತ್”
- Korean: “애크웜”
- Ladin: “Ackworth”
- Lithuanian: “Akvortas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ackworth (West Yorkshire)”
- Persian: “اکورث”
- Polish: “Ackworth”
- Portuguese: “Ackworth”
- Russian: “Экворф”
- Spanish: “Ackworth”
- Swedish: “Ackworth, West Yorkshire”
- Swedish: “Ackworth”
- Tamil: “ஆக்ஒர்த்”
- Telugu: “అక్వర్త్”
- Turkish: “Ackworth, West Yorkshire”
- Turkish: “Ackworth”
- Urdu: “اکوورتھ”
- Welsh: “Ackworth”
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Localities in the Area
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