Chequerfield
Chequerfield is a district made up mostly of council housing of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Family R.C Church and Pontefract Castle.
Pontefract Castle
Castle
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Pontefract Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of famous sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War.
Pontefract Baghill railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carleton and Pontefract.
Carleton
Village
Carleton is a small village on the southern outskirts of Pontefract, in the Wakefield district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The village is home to the parish church of St Michael the Archangel, and two schools, Carleton High School and the Rookeries primary school.
Pontefract
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Darrington
Village
Darrington is a small village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, 3 miles from Pontefract and 25 miles from the city of York.
Chequerfield
- Type: Suburb
- Description: area of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.68634° or 53° 41′ 11″ northLongitude
-1.29609° or 1° 17′ 46″ westElevation
184 feet (56 metres)Open location code
9C5WMPP3+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 13153071287OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
“Chequerfield” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Chequerfield”
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