Pontefract
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 30,900 residents
- Description: market town in West Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Pomfret”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pontefract Castle and Pontefract Monkhill railway station.
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 Monkhill railway station
Railway station
Pontefract Monkhill railway station is the busiest station in the market town of Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England. The station is on the Pontefract Line managed by Northern but is also served by Grand Central and is 14 miles south east of Leeds.
Pontefract Tanshelf railway station
Railway station
Pontefract Tanshelf railway station is the most central station in the market town of Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England, and serves Pontefract Races, the racecourse located just down the street from the station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Featherstone and Ferrybridge.
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 2 miles southwest of Pontefract.
Ferrybridge
Village
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Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton.
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. Darrington is situated 2 miles southeast of Pontefract.
Pontefract
- Categories: market town, unparished area, and locality
- Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.6917° or 53° 41′ 30″ northLongitude
-1.3106° or 1° 18′ 38″ westPopulation
30,900Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB POFOpen location code
9C5WMMRQ+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 331203OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Pontefract” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պոնտեֆրակտ”
- Azerbaijani: “Pontefrakt”
- Basque: “Pontefract”
- Belarusian: “Пантэфракт”
- Bengali: “পন্টেফ্রাক্ট”
- Bulgarian: “Понтифракт”
- Cebuano: “Pontefract”
- Chinese: “庞提夫莱克特”
- Chinese: “庞蒂弗拉克特”
- Chinese: “龐提夫萊克特”
- Chinese: “龐蒂弗拉克特”
- Dutch: “Pontefract”
- French: “Pontefract”
- German: “Pontefract”
- Gujarati: “પોન્ટેફ્રેક્ટ”
- Hebrew: “פונטפרקט”
- Irish: “Pontefract”
- Italian: “Pontefract”
- Japanese: “ポンテフラクト”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಂಟೆಫ್ರಾಕ್ಟ್”
- Korean: “폰테프랙트”
- Korean: “폰트프랙트”
- Ladin: “Pontefract”
- Latin: “Ponsfractus”
- Lithuanian: “Pontefraktas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pontefract”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pontefract”
- Norwegian: “Pontefract”
- Persian: “پونتفراکت”
- Polish: “Pontefract”
- Portuguese: “Pontefract”
- Romanian: “Pontefract”
- Russian: “Понтефракт”
- Slovenian: “Pontefract”
- South Azerbaijani: “پونتفراکت”
- Spanish: “Pontefract”
- Swedish: “Pontefract”
- Tamil: “பில்”
- Telugu: “పొంటేఫ్రాక్ట్”
- Ukrainian: “Понтефракт”
- Urdu: “پونٹافریکٹ”
- Volapük: “Pontefract”
- Welsh: “Pomffred”
- Welsh: “Pontefract”
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