Pontefract
Sign in to savethumb|Arms of Pontefract depicting the castle, used before Pontefract was incorporated into Wakefield. Pontefract is a historic market town in the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. It lies to the east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.label_position
- bottom
- UK place.official_name
- Pontefract
- UK place.population
- 30,881
- UK place.population_ref
- (North+South Wards 2011)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- City of Wakefield
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley
- UK place.post_town
- PONTEFRACT
- UK place.postcode_district
- WF8
- UK place.postcode_area
- WF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01977
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE455215
- UK place.static_image_width
- 260
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 257
- UK place.type
- Town
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thumb|Arms of Pontefract depicting the castle, used before Pontefract was incorporated into Wakefield. Pontefract is a historic market town in the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. It lies to the east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census.
Pontefract's motto is , Latin for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to the town's Royalist sympathies in the English Civil War. Small villages and settlements in the immediate area include Stapleton.