Pontefract Town Hall
Pontefract Town Hall is a town hall in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was completed in 1882. It is now owned and used by Wakefield Council as a registry office. The building has been Grade II listed since 15 November 1988.Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town hall
- Description: town hall in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Address: Bridge Street, Pontefract, WF8 1PQ
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pontefract Market Hall and Pontefract Museum.
Pontefract Market Hall
Marketplace
Photo: Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontefract Market Hall is a market hall in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was completed in 1860. Pontefract market takes place both in the hall and on the Market Place on which the hall is situated.
Pontefract Museum
Museum
Photo: Stanley Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontefract Museum is a local museum in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The collections cover archaeology, archives, decorative and applied art, fine art, photographs and social history. The museum opened in 1975. Pontefract Museum is situated 520 feet west of Pontefract Town Hall.
St Giles’ Church, Pontefract
Church
Photo: Stanley Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St. Giles' in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. St Giles’ Church, Pontefract is situated 490 feet west of Pontefract Town Hall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pontefract and Chequerfield.
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.
Chequerfield
Suburb
Chequerfield is a district made up mostly of council housing of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England.
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 Town Hall
- Categories: city hall, building, and government building
- Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.69207° or 53° 41′ 31″ northLongitude
-1.30964° or 1° 18′ 35″ westOperator
Wakefield CouncilOpen location code
9C5WMMRR+R4OpenStreetMap ID
way 859918822OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=townhallOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q26480177
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In Other Languages
“Pontefract Town Hall” goes by many names.
- French: “hôtel de ville de Pontefract”
- French: “Hôtel de ville de Pontefract”
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Highlights include Pontefract Registration Office and Gillygate.
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