New Town

New Town is a neighborhood in , . New Town is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pontefract Castle and Pontefract Monkhill railway station.

Castle
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is a castle ruin in the town of , in , England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War.

Railway station
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Pontefract Monkhill is the busiest railway station in the market town of , in , England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, 14 miles south-east of .

Railway station
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Pontefract Tanshelf is the most central of the three railway stations that serve the market town of , in , England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, 8 miles east of , with services operated by Northern Trains.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pontefract and Airedale.

Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a market town in . It's one of the "Five Towns" east of the city of , and a commuter town for Leeds. in 2021 its population was 40,000.

Suburb
is a suburb in the town of , , . It consists mainly of Local Authority Housing. It borders with Ferry Fryston. The ward of the City of Wakefield called and Ferry Fryston had a population of 14,811 at the 2011 Census.

Suburb
Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a neighbourhood of in the district of , England. The area is next to Junction 32 of the M62 motorway and the , and borders .

New Town

Latitude
53.70622° or 53° 42′ 22″ north
Longitude
-1.30844° or 1° 18′ 30″ west
Elevation
115 feet (35 metres)
Open location code
9C5WPM4R+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13147631824
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
13271782
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