Hunters Wood

Hunters Wood is a forest in Darrington, Wakefield, England. Hunters Wood is situated nearby to the village Darrington, as well as near the locality Cattlelaith.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pontefract Castle and Knottingley 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 sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War.

Knottingley railway station

Railway station

Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.

Knottingley railway station serves the town of Knottingley, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line and is 16 miles south-east of Leeds; services are operated by Northern Trains.

Pontefract Baghill railway station

Railway station

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Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.

Pontefract Baghill is one of three railway stations that serve the market town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. The other stations, Monkhill and Tanshelf, both lie on the Pontefract line, while Baghill lies on the Dearne Valley line, 21+1⁄4 miles south of York towards Sheffield.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pontefract and Knottingley.

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.

Knottingley

Town

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Knottingley is a town in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the river Aire and the old A1 road before it was bypassed as the A1.

Darrington

Village

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Hunters Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Darrington, Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.6807° or 53° 40′ 50″ north

Longitude

-1.257° or 1° 15′ 25″ west

Open location code

9C5WMPJV+75

OpenStreetMap ID

way 186152652

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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