Wakefield

Wakefield is a city in , 12 miles south of Leeds. Its chief attractions are the Hepworth Gallery and the National Mining Museum for England.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Wakefield Cathedral and Wakefield Westgate railway station.

Church
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, or the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Wakefield, , England, is a co-equal Anglican cathedral with and , in the Diocese of Leeds and a seat of the Bishop of Leeds.

Railway station
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Wakefield Westgate is one of two railway stations that serve Wakefield, in , England. It lies 10 miles south of to the west of the city centre, on the Wakefield Line and Leeds branch of the East Coast Main Line.

Railway station
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Wakefield Kirkgate is one of two railway stations in Wakefield, , England. Unlike nearby , Kirkgate is unstaffed. It is managed by Northern Trains, but also served by Grand Central and TransPennine Express.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wrenthorpe and Outwood.

Village
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is a village north-west of Wakefield, in , England. It is located in the Rhubarb Triangle.

Suburb
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is a district to the north of Wakefield, in , England. The district is centred on the A61 Leeds Road south of . It grew up as a pit village and was only a small settlement until the 1970s, when construction of new houses caused it to grow and merge with neighbouring settlements such as Wrenthorpe and Stanley.

Suburb
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or Sandal is a suburb of Wakefield, , England with a population in 2001 of 5,432. An ancient settlement, it is the site of and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

Wakefield

Latitude
53.683° or 53° 40′ 59″ north
Longitude
-1.4967° or 1° 29′ 48″ west
Population
322,000
Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)
IATA airport code
XWD
United Nations Location Code
GB WFD
Open location code
9C5WMGM3+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21027566
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2634910
Wiki­data ID
Q216638
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Wakefield” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wakefield”
  • Arabic: “ويكفيلد”
  • Armenian: “Ուեյքֆիլդ”
  • Asturian: “Wakefield”
  • Balinese: “Wakefield”
  • Basque: “Wakefield”
  • Belarusian: “Уэйкфілд”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েকফিল্ড”
  • Breton: “Wakefield”
  • Bulgarian: “Уейкфийлд”
  • Catalan: “Wakefield”
  • Cebuano: “Wakefield (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Wakefield”
  • Chinese: “域菲”
  • Chinese: “威克菲”
  • Chinese: “韦克菲尔德”
  • Czech: “Wakefield”
  • Danish: “Wakefield”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wakefield”
  • Dutch: “Wakefield”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويكفيلد”
  • Esperanto: “Wakefield”
  • Finnish: “Wakefield”
  • French: “Wakefield”
  • Galician: “Wakefield”
  • German: “Wakefield”
  • Greek: “Γουέικφιλντ”
  • Greek: “Ουέικφιλντ”
  • Gujarati: “વેકફિલ્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “וייקפילד”
  • Hindi: “वेकफील्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Wakefield”
  • Icelandic: “Wakefield”
  • Indonesian: “Wakefield”
  • Irish: “Wakefield”
  • Italian: “Wakefield”
  • Japanese: “ウェイクフィールド”
  • Kannada: “ವೇಕ್ ಫೀಲ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “웨이크필드”
  • Kurdish: “Wakefield”
  • Ladin: “Wakefield”
  • Latin: “Wakefeldia”
  • Latin: “Wakefield”
  • Latvian: “Veikfīlda”
  • Lithuanian: “Veikfildas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wakefield”
  • Malay: “Wakefield”
  • Marathi: “वेकफील्ड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wakefield”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wakefield”
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  • Norwegian: “Wakefield”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wakefield”
  • Persian: “ویکفیلد”
  • Polish: “Wakefield”
  • Portuguese: “Wakefield”
  • Romanian: “Wakefield”
  • Russian: “Векфильд”
  • Russian: “Уэйкфилд”
  • Scots: “Wakefield”
  • Serbian: “Vejkfild”
  • Serbian: “Wakefield”
  • Serbian: “Вејкфилд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wakefield, West Yorkshire”
  • Silesian: “Wakefield”
  • Sinhala: “වේක්ෆීල්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Wakefield”
  • Slovenian: “Wakefield”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویکفیلد”
  • Spanish: “Wakefield”
  • Swedish: “Wakefield”
  • Tamil: “வேக்ஃபீல்ட்”
  • Tamil: “வேக்பில்டு”
  • Tatar: “Вейкфилд”
  • Telugu: “వేక్ఫీల్డ్”
  • Thai: “เวกฟีลด์”
  • Turkish: “Wakefield”
  • Ukrainian: “Вейкфілд”
  • Urdu: “ویکفیلڈ”
  • Vietnamese: “Wakefield”
  • Volapük: “Wakefield”
  • Welsh: “Wakefield”
  • Western Frisian: “Wakefield”
  • Yiddish: “ווייקפילד”
  • Yiddish: “ווייקפֿילד”
  • Yue Chinese: “域菲”

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