Hunters Wood

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

Places of Interest

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

Railway station
Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.
serves the town of , in , England. It lies on the Pontefract Line and is 16 miles south-east of ; services are operated by Northern Trains.

Railway station
Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.
Pontefract Baghill is one of three railway stations that serve the market town of , in , England. The other stations, and , both lie on the Pontefract line, while Baghill lies on the Dearne Valley line, 21+1⁄4 miles south of towards Sheffield.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pontefract and Knottingley.

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.

Town
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in the in , England on the and the old A1 road before it was bypassed as the A1. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 13,503, increasing to 13,710 for the City of Wakefield ward at the 2011 Census.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a village in , England. lies at a historically important crossing of the which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton.

Hunters Wood

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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