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href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%AA" title="پونتفراکت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پونتفراکت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontefract" title="Pontefract – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Pontefract" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontefract" title="Pontefract – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Pontefract" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a 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scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></th><td class="infobox-data">257 mi (414 km)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Metropolitan borough</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Wakefield" title="City of Wakefield">City of Wakefield</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_and_non-metropolitan_counties_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England">Metropolitan county</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link 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.longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Pontefract&params=53.691_N_1.312_W_region:GB_type:city(30881)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">53°41′28″N</span> <span class="longitude">1°18′43″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">53.691°N 1.312°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">53.691; -1.312</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Pontefract</b> is a historic market town in the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Wakefield" title="City of Wakefield">City of Wakefield</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan district">metropolitan district</a> in <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a>, England. It lies to the east of <a href="/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield">Wakefield</a> and south of <a href="/wiki/Castleford" title="Castleford">Castleford</a>. <a href="/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England" title="Historic counties of England">Historically</a> part of the <a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">West Riding of Yorkshire</a>, it is one of the towns in the City of Wakefield district and had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pontefract's motto is <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Post mortem patris pro filio</i></span>, <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to the town's Royalist sympathies in the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Small villages and settlements in the immediate area include <a href="/wiki/Stapleton,_Selby" title="Stapleton, Selby">Stapleton</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:An_almost_deserted_Market_Place,_Pontefract_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic_(23rd_May_2020).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/An_almost_deserted_Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg/220px-An_almost_deserted_Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/An_almost_deserted_Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg/330px-An_almost_deserted_Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/An_almost_deserted_Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg/440px-An_almost_deserted_Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2176" /></a><figcaption>Pontefract Market Place</figcaption></figure> <p>At the end of the 11th century, the modern <a href="/wiki/Township#United_Kingdom" title="Township">township</a> of Pontefract consisted of two distinct localities, Tanshelf and Kirkby.<sup id="cite_ref-Eric_Houlder_2012_p.7_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eric_Houlder_2012_p.7-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 11th-century historian Orderic Vitalis recorded that, in 1069, <a href="/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a> travelled across Yorkshire to put down an uprising which had sacked York. </p><p>Upon his journey to the city, he discovered that a crossing of the <a href="/wiki/River_Aire" title="River Aire">River Aire</a> near what is modern-day Pontefract had been blockaded by local <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Scandinavian" title="Anglo-Scandinavian">Anglo-Scandinavian</a> <a href="/wiki/Insurgent" class="mw-redirect" title="Insurgent">insurgents</a>, who had broken the bridge and held the opposite bank in force.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such a crossing point would have been important to the town, providing access between Pontefract and other settlements to the north and east, such as York.<sup id="cite_ref-Ayto_&_Crofton_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ayto_&_Crofton-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historians believe that it is this historical event which gives the township of Pontefract its modern name. The name "Pontefract" originates from the Latin for "broken bridge", formed of the elements <i>pons</i> (bridge) and <i>fractus</i> (broken). Pontefract was not recorded in the 1086 <i><a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a></i>, but it was noted as Pontefracto in 1090, four years after the Domesday survey.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neolithic">Neolithic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Neolithic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2007 an extension of <a href="/wiki/Ferrybridge_Henge" title="Ferrybridge Henge">Ferrybridge Henge</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> <a href="/wiki/Henge" title="Henge">henge</a> – was discovered near Pontefract during a survey in preparation for the construction of a row of houses. Once the survey was complete, construction continued.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman">Roman</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Roman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The modern town is situated near an old <a href="/wiki/Roman_road" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman road">Roman road</a> (now the A639), described as the "Roman Ridge". This is believed to form part of an alternative route from <a href="/wiki/Doncaster" title="Doncaster">Doncaster</a> to York via Castleford and Tadcaster, as a diversion of the major Roman road <a href="/wiki/Ermine_Street" title="Ermine Street">Ermine Street</a>, which may have been used to avoid having to cross the <a href="/wiki/Humber" title="Humber">River Humber</a> near <a href="/wiki/North_Ferriby" title="North Ferriby">North Ferriby</a> during rough weather conditions over the Humber. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anglo-Scandinavian_history">Anglo-Scandinavian history<span class="anchor" id="Tanshelf_and_Kirkby"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Anglo-Scandinavian history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The period of Yorkshire's history between the demise of the Viking king, Eric Bloodaxe, in 954 and the arrival of the Normans in 1068 is known as the Anglo-Scandinavian age. The modern township of Pontefract consisted of two Anglo-Scandinavian settlements, Tanshelf and Kirkby. In Yorkshire, place-name locations often contain the distinctive Danish '-by' i.e. Kirkby and today, the major streets in Pontefract are designated by the Danish word 'gate' e.g. Bailygate. </p><p>The Anglo-Scandinavian township, Tanshelf, recorded as <i>Tateshale</i>, <i>Tateshalla</i>, <i>Tateshalle</i> or <i>Tatessella</i> in the 'Domesday Book' is today occupied by the town of Pontefract. The <i><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle" title="Anglo-Saxon Chronicle">Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</a></i> made a reference to Tanshelf in 947 when King Eadred of England met with the ruling council of Northumbria to accept its submission. King Eadred did not enjoy Northumbria's support for long, and a year later the kingdom voted Eric Bloodaxe King of York.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the Domesday survey was commissioned by <a href="/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a> in 1086, Tanshelf was a sizeable settlement. It had a priest, 60 petty burgesses, 16 cottagers, 16 villagers and 8 smallholders, amounting to 101 people. The size of the population might have been four or five times larger as the only people listed were landholders. Tanshelf had a church, a fishery and three mills. Archaeologists discovered the remains of a church on The Booths, off North Baileygate, below the castle. The oldest grave dates from around 690. The church may have been similar to the church at <a href="/wiki/Ledsham,_West_Yorkshire" title="Ledsham, West Yorkshire">Ledsham</a>. The area of the town market place was the meeting place of the <a href="/wiki/Osgoldcross_(wapentake)" class="mw-redirect" title="Osgoldcross (wapentake)">Osgoldcross</a> <a href="/wiki/Wapentake" class="mw-redirect" title="Wapentake">wapentake</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Anglo-Saxon period part of the modern town was known by the Anglo-Scandinavian name as Kirkby. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval">Medieval</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Medieval"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pontefract_Castle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Pontefract_Castle.jpg/300px-Pontefract_Castle.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Pontefract_Castle.jpg/450px-Pontefract_Castle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Pontefract_Castle.jpg/600px-Pontefract_Castle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="691" /></a><figcaption>Painting of <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Castle" title="Pontefract Castle">Pontefract Castle</a> in the early 17th century by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Keirincx" title="Alexander Keirincx">Alexander Keirincx</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/De_Lacy" title="De Lacy">de Lacy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_de_Lacys%27_family_tree" title="Pontefract de Lacys' family tree">Pontefract de Lacys' family tree</a></div> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest of England">Norman conquest</a> in 1066 almost all of Yorkshire came under the ownership of followers of <a href="/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Ilbert_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ilbert-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> one of whom was <a href="/wiki/De_Lacy" title="De Lacy">Ilbert de Lacy</a> who became the owner of Tateshale (Tanshelf) where he built a castle.<sup id="cite_ref-Ilbert_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ilbert-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Castle" title="Pontefract Castle">Pontefract Castle</a> began as a wooden <a href="/wiki/Motte_and_bailey" class="mw-redirect" title="Motte and bailey">motte and bailey</a> castle before 1086 and was later rebuilt in stone. The de Lacys lived there for more than two centuries<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were holders of the castle and the <a href="/wiki/Honour_of_Pontefract" title="Honour of Pontefract">Honour of Pontefract</a> from 1067<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until the death of Alice de Lacy in 1348.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Richard_II_of_England" title="Richard II of England">King Richard II</a> was murdered at the castle in 1400.<sup id="cite_ref-H2G2_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H2G2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Little is known of the nature of his demise; Shakespeare may have "adjusted" the facts for his own purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At least three theories attempt to explain his death:<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> either he was starved to death by his keepers, he starved himself to death or he was murdered by Sir Piers (Peter) Exton on 14 February 1399 or 1400.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_modern_history">Early modern history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Early modern history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Elizabethan times the castle and the town were both referred to as "Pomfret".<sup id="cite_ref-H2G2_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H2G2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>'s play <i><a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)">Richard III</a></i> mentions the castle:<br /> </p> <blockquote> <p>Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,<br /> Fatal and ominous to noble peers!<br /> Within the guilty closure of thy walls<br /> Richard the second here was hack'd to death;<br /> And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,<br /> We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.<sup id="cite_ref-H2G2_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H2G2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_New_Church_within_the_Old,_All_Saints,_Bondgate,_Pontefract._-_geograph.org.uk_-_239265.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/The_New_Church_within_the_Old%2C_All_Saints%2C_Bondgate%2C_Pontefract._-_geograph.org.uk_-_239265.jpg/220px-The_New_Church_within_the_Old%2C_All_Saints%2C_Bondgate%2C_Pontefract._-_geograph.org.uk_-_239265.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/The_New_Church_within_the_Old%2C_All_Saints%2C_Bondgate%2C_Pontefract._-_geograph.org.uk_-_239265.jpg/330px-The_New_Church_within_the_Old%2C_All_Saints%2C_Bondgate%2C_Pontefract._-_geograph.org.uk_-_239265.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/The_New_Church_within_the_Old%2C_All_Saints%2C_Bondgate%2C_Pontefract._-_geograph.org.uk_-_239265.jpg/440px-The_New_Church_within_the_Old%2C_All_Saints%2C_Bondgate%2C_Pontefract._-_geograph.org.uk_-_239265.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="423" /></a><figcaption>The new church within the old. After <a href="/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Pontefract" title="All Saints' Church, Pontefract">All Saints' Church</a> was damaged during the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">civil war</a> a new one was built within.</figcaption></figure> <p>Pontefract suffered throughout the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>. In 1648–49 the castle was laid siege by <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a>, who said it was "... one of the strongest inland garrisons in the kingdom."<sup id="cite_ref-H2G2_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-H2G2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Three sieges by the Parliamentarians left the town "impoverished and depopulated".<sup id="cite_ref-petition_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-petition-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 1649, after the third siege, Pontefract inhabitants, fearing a fourth, petitioned Parliament for the castle to be <a href="/wiki/Slighted" class="mw-redirect" title="Slighted">slighted</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-petition_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-petition-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The castle was a magnet for trouble,<sup id="cite_ref-petition_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-petition-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in April 1649 demolition began.<sup id="cite_ref-petition_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-petition-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The castle ruins are publicly accessible. <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Priory" title="Pontefract Priory">Pontefract Priory</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Cluniac" class="mw-redirect" title="Cluniac">Cluniac</a> priory founded in 1090 by Robert de Lacy dedicated to <a href="/wiki/John_the_Evangelist" title="John the Evangelist">St John the Evangelist</a> was <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">dissolved</a> by royal authority in 1539.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The priory maintained the Chartularies of St John, a collection of historic documents later discovered among family papers by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Levett" title="Thomas Levett">Thomas Levett</a>, the <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Rutland" title="High Sheriff of Rutland">High Sheriff of Rutland</a>, a native of Yorkshire, who gave them to <a href="/wiki/Roger_Dodsworth" title="Roger Dodsworth">Roger Dodsworth</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Antiquary" class="mw-redirect" title="Antiquary">antiquary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were published by the <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Archaeological_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkshire Archaeological Society">Yorkshire Archaeological Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pontefract_Registry_Office_(1).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Pontefract_Registry_Office_%281%29.JPG/170px-Pontefract_Registry_Office_%281%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Pontefract_Registry_Office_%281%29.JPG/255px-Pontefract_Registry_Office_%281%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Pontefract_Registry_Office_%281%29.JPG/340px-Pontefract_Registry_Office_%281%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3240" data-file-height="4320" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Town_Hall" title="Pontefract Town Hall">Pontefract Town Hall</a>, now used as a registry office</figcaption></figure> <p>For local government purposes the town lies in the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Wakefield" title="City of Wakefield">City of Wakefield</a> administered by <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Council" title="Wakefield Council">Wakefield Council</a>. It is divided into two electoral wards, <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_North" title="Pontefract North">Pontefract North</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_South" title="Pontefract South">Pontefract South</a>. Pontefract South was represented by two Labour councillors and one Conservative councillor and North ward represented by three Labour councillors in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1978 to 1997, ex-miner and former <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Mineworkers_(Great_Britain)" title="National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)">NUM</a> branch leader <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Lofthouse,_Baron_Lofthouse_of_Pontefract" class="mw-redirect" title="Geoffrey Lofthouse, Baron Lofthouse of Pontefract">Geoff Lofthouse</a> (18 December 1925 – 1 November 2012) was <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) for the <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_and_Castleford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency)">Pontefract and Castleford constituency</a>. During this time he became Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. When the general election of 1997 was called he stood down. He was made a peer on 11 June 1997. </p> <p><a href="/wiki/Yvette_Cooper" title="Yvette Cooper">Yvette Cooper</a> was elected as the MP for the Pontefract and Castleford constituency at the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>. In her maiden speech to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a>, Cooper said:</p><blockquote><p>"It is true that my constituency is plagued by unemployment, but I represent hard-working people who are proud of their strong communities and who have fought hard across generations to defend them. They are proud of their socialist traditions, and have fought for a better future for their children and their grandchildren. In the Middle Ages, that early egalitarian, the real <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a>, lived, so we maintain, in the <a href="/wiki/Wentbridge" title="Wentbridge">Vale of Wentbridge</a> to the south of Pontefract. It was a great base from which to hassle the travelling <a href="/wiki/Fat_cat_(term)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fat cat (term)">fat cats</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Great_North_Road_(Great_Britain)" title="Great North Road (Great Britain)">Great North Road</a>."</p></blockquote><p> She held a number of positions in the Labour governments up to 2010 and Shadow Cabinet roles (most notably <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Home_Secretary" title="Shadow Home Secretary">Shadow Home Secretary</a>) after the election of that year, but returned to the back benches after the <a href="/wiki/2015_Labour_Party_leadership_election_(UK)" title="2015 Labour Party leadership election (UK)">Labour leadership election of 2015</a>. Pontefract and Castleford was merged with the <a href="/wiki/Normanton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Normanton (UK Parliament constituency)">Normanton constituency</a> in a boundary change before the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a>. </p><p>The seat, which had a history of mining and industry, has returned Labour MPs at <a href="/wiki/General_election" title="General election">general elections</a>. Yvette Cooper polled 59.5% of the vote in the <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a> and 48.1% of the vote in the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:212px;max-width:212px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Pontefract Market Place</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:210px;max-width:210px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:116px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Market_Place,_Pontefract_(21st_June_2020)_001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_%2821st_June_2020%29_001.jpg/208px-Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_%2821st_June_2020%29_001.jpg" decoding="async" width="208" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_%2821st_June_2020%29_001.jpg/312px-Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_%2821st_June_2020%29_001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_%2821st_June_2020%29_001.jpg/416px-Market_Place%2C_Pontefract_%2821st_June_2020%29_001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2176" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Market Place</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:210px;max-width:210px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:156px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_429678.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_429678.jpg/208px-Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_429678.jpg" decoding="async" width="208" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_429678.jpg/312px-Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_429678.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_429678.jpg/416px-Market_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_429678.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Market_Hall" title="Pontefract Market Hall">Pontefract market hall</a></div></div></div></div></div> <p>Pontefract has been a <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a> since the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>; market days are Wednesday and Saturday, with a small market on Fridays. The covered market is open all week except Sundays. It is said by some that Pontefract once held a record for being the town with the highest number of pubs per square mile in the UK,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but this is likely an urban legend, and the title is held by another town.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Haribo_Sweets_Factory_-_Sessions_House_Yard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_576986.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Haribo_Sweets_Factory_-_Sessions_House_Yard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_576986.jpg/220px-Haribo_Sweets_Factory_-_Sessions_House_Yard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_576986.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Haribo_Sweets_Factory_-_Sessions_House_Yard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_576986.jpg/330px-Haribo_Sweets_Factory_-_Sessions_House_Yard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_576986.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Haribo_Sweets_Factory_-_Sessions_House_Yard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_576986.jpg/440px-Haribo_Sweets_Factory_-_Sessions_House_Yard_-_geograph.org.uk_-_576986.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="432" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Haribo" title="Haribo">Haribo</a> Factory</figcaption></figure> <p>The town has a <a href="/wiki/Liquorice_(confectionery)" title="Liquorice (confectionery)">liquorice-sweet</a> industry; and the famous <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_cake" title="Pontefract cake">Pontefract cakes</a> are produced, though the liquorice plant is no longer grown there. The town's two liquorice factories are owned by <a href="/wiki/Haribo" title="Haribo">Haribo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Valeo_Confectionery" title="Valeo Confectionery">Valeo Confectionery</a> (formerly Tangerine). A Liquorice festival is held annually. <a href="/wiki/Poet_laureate" title="Poet laureate">Poet laureate</a> <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Betjeman" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Betjeman">Sir John Betjeman</a> wrote a poem entitled "The Licorice Fields at Pontefract". In 2012, local farmer Robert Copley announced that he would be re-introducing a liquorice crop to Pontefract.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Close by is the site of the former coal-fired <a href="/wiki/Ferrybridge_power_stations" title="Ferrybridge power stations">Ferrybridge power station</a>, although the local <a href="/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">coal mines</a> largely closed in the 1990s, which contributed to high unemployment in the local area. The final colliery, <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Colliery" title="Prince of Wales Colliery">Prince of Wales Colliery</a>, closed in August 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has since been redeveloped into a large housing estate named after the colliery.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Amenities_and_services">Amenities and services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Amenities and services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The secondary schools in the town are <a href="/wiki/Carleton_High_School" title="Carleton High School">Carleton High School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Carleton,_West_Yorkshire" title="Carleton, West Yorkshire">Carleton</a> and the <a href="/wiki/King%27s_School,_Pontefract" title="King's School, Pontefract">King's School</a> on Mill Hill Lane, both for pupils aged 11–16. A sixth-form college, <a href="/wiki/New_College,_Pontefract" title="New College, Pontefract">New College, Pontefract</a>, is located on Park Lane. </p><p>The old Pontefract General Infirmary on Southgate (pictured) was a general hospital; it is the place at which serial killer <a href="/wiki/Harold_Shipman" title="Harold Shipman">Harold Shipman</a> began to murder his elderly patients. Beneath this building is an old <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Hermitage" title="Pontefract Hermitage">hermitage</a>, open to the public on certain days. <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Museum" title="Pontefract Museum">Pontefract Museum</a>, from which the hermitage schedule can be obtained, is in the town centre, housed in the former <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_library" title="Carnegie library">Carnegie library</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A new hospital was built on Friarwood Lane and opened in July 2010, with the new name of <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Hospital" title="Pontefract Hospital">Pontefract Hospital</a>; there is now a modern hospital building. Near to the hospital is Friarwood Valley Gardens, a rose garden, a sensory garden, a pinhole camera (formerly an aviary and earlier a Georgian gambling den) and an avenue of cherry trees. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pontefract_Fire_station_(geograph_5674705).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Pontefract_Fire_station_%28geograph_5674705%29.jpg/220px-Pontefract_Fire_station_%28geograph_5674705%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Pontefract_Fire_station_%28geograph_5674705%29.jpg/330px-Pontefract_Fire_station_%28geograph_5674705%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Pontefract_Fire_station_%28geograph_5674705%29.jpg/440px-Pontefract_Fire_station_%28geograph_5674705%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="389" /></a><figcaption>Pontefract Fire Station</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Luke_William_House,_Pontefract_(23rd_May_2020).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Luke_William_House%2C_Pontefract_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg/220px-Luke_William_House%2C_Pontefract_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Luke_William_House%2C_Pontefract_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg/330px-Luke_William_House%2C_Pontefract_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Luke_William_House%2C_Pontefract_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg/440px-Luke_William_House%2C_Pontefract_%2823rd_May_2020%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2176" /></a><figcaption>Luke Williams House. The <a href="/wiki/Horsefair_flats" title="Horsefair flats">Horsefair flats</a> were designed by <a href="/wiki/John_Poulson" title="John Poulson">John Poulson</a> and dominate the skyline in the east of the town</figcaption></figure> <p>The local police force is <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Police" title="West Yorkshire Police">West Yorkshire Police</a>, with the town's neighbourhood policing team situated at the new fire station on Stumpcross Lane. The original police station in Sessions House Yard has been demolished since the divisional headquarters for the Wakefield District opened in Normanton and the neighbouring magistrates' court has moved to <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>, following the closure of the Wakefield and Pontefract courts. </p><p>Fire cover is provided by <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service">West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service</a>, with one pump (sometimes two) based at Pontefract Fire Station. Formerly located on Stuart Road in the town centre, the station has moved to a new site at Stumpcross Lane, by the A645 at the town's eastern edge. The new fire station provides cover for Knottingley; that town's fire station having been closed as part of the merging of fire cover for Pontefract and Knottingley. </p><p>Ambulance cover is provided by <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Ambulance_Service" title="Yorkshire Ambulance Service">Yorkshire Ambulance service</a>, whose depot is situated in neighbouring town, <a href="/wiki/Castleford" title="Castleford">Castleford</a> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barracks_Business_Centre_-_Wakefield_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_997478.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Barracks_Business_Centre_-_Wakefield_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_997478.jpg/220px-Barracks_Business_Centre_-_Wakefield_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_997478.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Barracks_Business_Centre_-_Wakefield_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_997478.jpg/330px-Barracks_Business_Centre_-_Wakefield_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_997478.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Barracks_Business_Centre_-_Wakefield_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_997478.jpg/440px-Barracks_Business_Centre_-_Wakefield_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_997478.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="462" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Barracks" title="Pontefract Barracks">Barracks Business Centre, Wakefield Road</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The Territorial Army, Army Cadets and Air Training Corps all have a presence within the town and are based at the historic <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Barracks" title="Pontefract Barracks">Barracks</a> building on Wakefield Road. It now houses a Rifles Regiment Recruitment team. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media,_arts_and_entertainment"><span id="Media.2C_arts_and_entertainment"></span>Media, arts and entertainment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Media, arts and entertainment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Local news and television programmes are provided by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Yorkshire" title="BBC Yorkshire">BBC Yorkshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_Yorkshire" title="ITV Yorkshire">ITV Yorkshire</a>. Television signals are received from the <a href="/wiki/Emley_Moor_transmitting_station" title="Emley Moor transmitting station">Emley Moor</a> TV transmitter. <sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Local radio stations are <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Leeds" title="BBC Radio Leeds">BBC Radio Leeds</a> on 92.4 FM, <a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_Radio_Yorkshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire">Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Ridings_FM" title="Ridings FM">Ridings FM</a>) on 106.8 FM, <a href="/wiki/Heart_Yorkshire" title="Heart Yorkshire">Heart Yorkshire</a> on 106.2 FM, <a href="/wiki/Hits_Radio_West_Yorkshire" title="Hits Radio West Yorkshire">Hits Radio West Yorkshire</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Pulse_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Pulse 1">Pulse 1</a>) on 102.5 FM, <a href="/wiki/Capital_Yorkshire" title="Capital Yorkshire">Capital Yorkshire</a> on 105.1 FM and 5 Towns FM, a community online radio station that broadcasts from <a href="/wiki/Castleford,_West_Yorkshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Castleford, West Yorkshire">Castleford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The local newspaper is the <i>Pontefract and Castleford Express</i>. </p><p>Novelist <a href="/wiki/Jack_Vance" title="Jack Vance">Jack Vance</a>, in the "<a href="/wiki/Demon_Princes" title="Demon Princes">Demon Princes</a>" cycle has named the capital of Aloysius, the main planet in the Vega system, after Pontefract. The hero of the series, Kirth Gersen, has his residence there. </p><p>Pontefract made local and national newspapers in April 2020, with a range of art which lay tribute to the key workers and NHS during the coronavirus outbreak. The art was painted by a local mural artist, Rachel List.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town is home to many sports including rugby, football and squash. Prominent squash players <a href="/wiki/Lee_Beachill" title="Lee Beachill">Lee Beachill</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Willstrop" title="James Willstrop">James Willstrop</a> both train at Pontefract Squash Club. Notable institutions are horse racing at <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Racecourse" title="Pontefract Racecourse">Pontefract Racecourse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Featherstone_Rovers" title="Featherstone Rovers">Featherstone Rovers</a>, the area's professional rugby league club. </p><p>Pontefract Racecourse is the longest continuous horse racing circuit in Europe at 2 miles 125 yards (3,333 m; 16.57 furlongs).<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It stages flat racing between the end of March and the end of October. A new sports centre is located at Pontefract Park which opened on 12 April 2021, which replaces the old swimming pool located on Stuart Road.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two-time European Masters Champion weightlifter Martyn Riley is from Pontefract.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pontefract has its own non-league football club, <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Collieries_F.C." title="Pontefract Collieries F.C.">Pontefract Collieries F.C.</a>, which was founded in 1958 and plays adjacent to the former Prince of Wales Colliery off Beechnut Lane. The team, known locally as "Ponte Colls" play in the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Premier_League" title="Northern Premier League">Northern Premier League</a> Division One North West (correct as of the 2021–22 season). Pontefract is also home to the Pontefract Knights rugby league football club. </p><p>Pontefract RUFC is based at Moor Lane, <a href="/wiki/Carleton,_West_Yorkshire" title="Carleton, West Yorkshire">Carleton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It runs three senior sides as well as a number of junior and girls teams.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rugby Union has been played in the town since the 19th century when Pontefract won the Yorkshire Cup. </p><p>Pontefract used to boast two cricket clubs, Lakeside CC (based in Pontefract Park) and Pontefract CC (adjacent to Pontefract Collieries FC), but by 2002 neither of these clubs were still in existence, leaving the town without its own club despite giving its name to the Pontefract and District Cricket League. Nowadays cricketers must travel to clubs in neighbouring towns and villages, with the closest being Hundhill Hall Cricket Club based in the nearby village <a href="/wiki/East_Hardwick" title="East Hardwick">East Hardwick</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pontefract lies in close proximity to the <a href="/wiki/A1_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A1 road (Great Britain)">A1</a> and the <a href="/wiki/M62_motorway" title="M62 motorway">M62</a>. Access from the A1 is via a junction at the nearby village of <a href="/wiki/Darrington,_West_Yorkshire" title="Darrington, West Yorkshire">Darrington</a>, while access from the M62 is via Junction 32 (also for <a href="/wiki/Castleford" title="Castleford">Castleford</a>) and Junction 33 (also for <a href="/wiki/Knottingley" title="Knottingley">Knottingley</a>). </p><p>Bus transport is provided by <a href="/wiki/Arriva_Yorkshire" title="Arriva Yorkshire">Arriva Yorkshire</a>, operating from <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_bus_station" title="Pontefract bus station">Pontefract bus station</a> as the town's main hub. </p><p>There are three railway stations in the town. <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Baghill_railway_station" title="Pontefract Baghill railway station">Pontefract Baghill</a> is on the <a href="/wiki/Dearne_Valley_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Dearne Valley Line">Dearne Valley Line</a>, which connects <a href="/wiki/York_railway_station" title="York railway station">York</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheffield railway station">Sheffield</a>. <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Monkhill" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontefract Monkhill">Pontefract Monkhill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Tanshelf" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontefract Tanshelf">Pontefract Tanshelf</a> connect with <a href="/wiki/Leeds_railway_station" title="Leeds railway station">Leeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Westgate_railway_station" title="Wakefield Westgate railway station">Wakefield Westgate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Kirkgate_railway_station" title="Wakefield Kirkgate railway station">Wakefield Kirkgate</a>. There are rail services from <a href="/wiki/Bradford_Interchange_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Bradford Interchange railway station">Bradford Interchange</a> to London that stop at <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Monkhill" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontefract Monkhill">Pontefract Monkhill</a>. </p><p>The closest airport is <a href="/wiki/Leeds_Bradford_Airport" title="Leeds Bradford Airport">Leeds Bradford</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pontefract_Library_(1).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Pontefract_Library_%281%29.JPG/220px-Pontefract_Library_%281%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Pontefract_Library_%281%29.JPG/330px-Pontefract_Library_%281%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Pontefract_Library_%281%29.JPG/440px-Pontefract_Library_%281%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Opening in 1975, <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Library" title="Pontefract Library">Pontefract Library</a> is one of the last buildings to have been designed by Pontefract architect <a href="/wiki/John_Poulson" title="John Poulson">John Poulson</a>.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Darren_Appleton" title="Darren Appleton">Darren Appleton</a> (1976–) Professional pool player, 9 ball world champion, 10 ball world champion.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thurstan" title="Thurstan">Thurstan</a> of Bayeux, (c.1071–1140), archbishop, died in Pontefract.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_de_Pontefract" title="Richard de Pontefract">Richard de Pontefract</a> (?–1320?), <a href="/wiki/Dominican_Order" title="Dominican Order">Dominican</a> <a href="/wiki/Friar" title="Friar">friar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ramsden_(died_1646)" title="John Ramsden (died 1646)">John Ramsden</a> (1594–1646), <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_Yorkshire" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sheriff of Yorkshire">High Sheriff of Yorkshire</a>, MP for Pontefract in the <a href="/wiki/Short_Parliament" title="Short Parliament">Short Parliament</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> soldier</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jackson_(MP_for_Pontefract)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Jackson (MP for Pontefract)">John Jackson</a> (1595?–1637), MP for Pontefract during the <a href="/wiki/Happy_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Happy Parliament">Happy Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Drake_(antiquary)" title="Francis Drake (antiquary)">Francis Drake</a> (1696–1771), <a href="/wiki/Antiquary" class="mw-redirect" title="Antiquary">antiquary</a> and surgeon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Monckton" title="Robert Monckton">Robert Monckton</a>, (1726–1782), <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)">MP for Pontefract</a> and <a href="/wiki/British_army" class="mw-redirect" title="British army">British army</a> general</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Smyth_(1748%E2%80%931811)" title="John Smyth (1748–1811)">John Smyth</a> (1748–1811), MP for Pontefract</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Hartley" title="Jesse Hartley">Jesse Hartley</a> (1780–1860), civil engineer and Superintendent of the Concerns of the Dock Estate, Liverpool; built the Albert Dock and many other parts of Liverpool Docks</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Coleman_(English_painter)" title="Charles Coleman (English painter)">Charles Coleman</a> (1807–1874), English painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Cole" title="Isaac Cole">Isaac Cole</a> (1886–1940), rugby union and league player who represented <a href="/wiki/England_national_rugby_league_team" title="England national rugby league team">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Upward" title="Edward Upward">Edward Upward</a> (1903–2009), novelist, lived in Pontefract from 2004 until his death in 2009</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Castle" title="Barbara Castle">Barbara Castle</a> (1910–2002), Labour Party politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Poulson" title="John Poulson">John Poulson</a> (1910–1993), architectural designer and businessman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Robinson_(rugby_league)" title="Don Robinson (rugby league)">Don Robinson</a> (1932–2017), <a href="/wiki/1954_Rugby_League_World_Cup" title="1954 Rugby League World Cup">1954 Rugby League World Cup</a> winning rugby league footballer who represented Great Britain, Wakefield Trinity, Leeds, and Doncaster</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Kirk" title="Malcolm Kirk">Mal Kirk</a> (1936–1987), wrestler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Drabble" title="Margaret Drabble">Margaret Drabble</a> (1939–), novelist, was evacuated to Pontefract during WW2<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harvey_Proctor" title="Harvey Proctor">Harvey Proctor</a> (1947–), Conservative Member of Parliament<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mick_Jackson_(singer)" title="Mick Jackson (singer)">Mick Jackson</a> (1947–), musician, writer of "<a href="/wiki/Blame_It_on_the_Boogie" title="Blame It on the Boogie">Blame It on the Boogie</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Moreton" title="Kevin Moreton">Kevin Moreton</a> (1959–), actor known for <i><a href="/wiki/Coronation_Street" title="Coronation Street">Coronation Street</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Collins" title="Jane Collins">Jane Collins</a> (1962–), politician, <a href="/wiki/UKIP" class="mw-redirect" title="UKIP">UKIP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brexit_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Brexit Party">Brexit Party</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">MEP</a> <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a> (2014–2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Crichton" title="Paul Crichton">Paul Crichton</a> (1968–), former footballer who currently serves as the goalkeeping coach for <a href="/wiki/Huddersfield_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Huddersfield Town">Huddersfield Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Baxendale" title="Helen Baxendale">Helen Baxendale</a> (1970–), actress known for <i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Feet" title="Cold Feet">Cold Feet</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Friends" title="Friends">Friends</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Cuckoo_(TV_series)" title="Cuckoo (TV series)">Cuckoo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Newlove" title="Paul Newlove">Paul Newlove</a> (1971–), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Smith_(darts_player)" title="Dave Smith (darts player)">Dave Smith</a> (1971–), professional darts player from <a href="/wiki/Knottingley" title="Knottingley">Knottingley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield">Wakefield</a>, <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hanby" title="Robert Hanby">Robert Hanby</a> (1974–), former footballer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dexter_Tucker" title="Dexter Tucker">Dexter Tucker</a> (1975–), footballer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Silverwood" title="Chris Silverwood">Chris Silverwood</a> (1975–), <a href="/wiki/Cricketer" class="mw-redirect" title="Cricketer">cricketer</a> who represented <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Yorkshire County Cricket Club">Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Middlesex_County_Cricket_Club" title="Middlesex County Cricket Club">Middlesex</a>, and England. Former coach of the <a href="/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England Men's Cricket team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamie_Davis_(actor)" title="Jamie Davis (actor)">Jamie Davis</a> (1981–), actor best known for his roles in Footballers' Wives, Hex, and currently in <i><a href="/wiki/Casualty_(TV_series)" title="Casualty (TV series)">Casualty</a></i> as <a href="/wiki/Characters_of_Casualty#Max_Walker" title="Characters of Casualty">Max Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Burrow" title="Rob Burrow">Rob Burrow</a> (1982–2024), former rugby league footballer with <a href="/wiki/Leeds_Rhinos" title="Leeds Rhinos">Leeds</a>; he also has represented both England and Great Britain</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toby_Kebbell" title="Toby Kebbell">Toby Kebbell</a> (1982–) actor known for "<a href="/wiki/Black_Mirror" title="Black Mirror">Black Mirror</a>", "<a href="/wiki/RocknRolla" title="RocknRolla">RocknRolla</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Dawn_of_the_Planet_of_the_Apes" title="Dawn of the Planet of the Apes">Dawn of the Planet of the Apes</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Warcraft" title="Warcraft">Warcraft</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/Kong:_Skull_Island" title="Kong: Skull Island">Kong: Skull Island</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamie_McCombe" title="Jamie McCombe">Jamie McCombe</a>, (1983–), footballer who currently plays for <a href="/wiki/Doncaster_Rovers_F.C." title="Doncaster Rovers F.C.">Doncaster Rovers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Green_(footballer_born_1983)" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul Green (footballer born 1983)">Paul Green</a> (1983–), footballer who plays for Oldham in the <a href="/wiki/EFL_League_One" title="EFL League One">English Football League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Willstrop" title="James Willstrop">James Willstrop</a> (1983–) squash player and gentleman. Attended <a href="/wiki/Ackworth_School" title="Ackworth School">Ackworth School</a> and in 2012 became World No.1 in squash by beating David Palmer.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Bresnan" title="Tim Bresnan">Tim Bresnan</a> (1985–), cricketer who represented <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Yorkshire County Cricket Club">Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire_County_Cricket_Club" title="Warwickshire County Cricket Club">Warwickshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/England_national_cricket_team" class="mw-redirect" title="England national cricket team">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Parker_(footballer)" title="Ben Parker (footballer)">Ben Parker</a> (1987–), former footballer who played for <a href="/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C." title="Leeds United F.C.">Leeds United</a> and represented <a href="/wiki/England_national_under-19_football_team" title="England national under-19 football team">England U19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Hindle" class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Hindle">Oliver Hindle</a> (1988–), artist and musician, best known for his band project Superpowerless</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Litchfield" title="Max Litchfield">Max Litchfield</a> (1995–), swimmer, silver medallist in the 400m medley at the European Long Course Championships</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Litchfield" title="Joe Litchfield">Joe Litchfield</a> (1998–), swimmer and brother of Max</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Westerman" title="Joe Westerman">Joe Westerman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">rugby league</a> footballer</li> <li>Dr <a href="/wiki/Harold_Shipman" title="Harold Shipman">Harold Shipman</a> spent some time working here.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Pontefract" title="Listed buildings in Pontefract">Listed buildings in Pontefract</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ackworth,_West_Yorkshire" title="Ackworth, West Yorkshire">Ackworth, West Yorkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Hermitage" title="Pontefract Hermitage">Pontefract Hermitage</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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title="John of Gloucester">John of Pontefract</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nostell_Priory" title="Nostell Priory">Nostell Priory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osgoldcross_Wapentake" title="Osgoldcross Wapentake">Osgoldcross Wapentake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)">Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Castle" title="Pontefract Castle">Pontefract Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_and_Castleford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency)">Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Friary" title="Pontefract Friary">Pontefract Friary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Hermitage" title="Pontefract Hermitage">Pontefract Hermitage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Priory" title="Pontefract Priory">Pontefract Priory</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pontefract_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pontefract Park (page does not exist)">Pontefract Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valley_Gardens" title="Valley Gardens">Valley Gardens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Political divisions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Osgoldcross_Rural_District" title="Osgoldcross Rural District">Osgoldcross Rural District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_South_(electoral_ward)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontefract South (electoral ward)">Pontefract South</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Politicians</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Arthington" title="Henry Arthington">Henry Arthington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Barstow" title="Percy Barstow">Percy Barstow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Richard_Beaumont,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Richard Beaumont, 1st Baronet">Richard Beaumont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Benyon_De_Beauvoir" title="Richard Benyon De Beauvoir">Richard Benyon De Beauvoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Handel_Booth" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederick Handel Booth">Frederick Handel Booth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Robert_Ingham_Brooke" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher Robert Ingham Brooke">Christopher Brooke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Childers" title="Hugh Childers">Hugh Childers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yvette_Cooper" title="Yvette Cooper">Yvette Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Compton-Rickett" title="Joseph Compton-Rickett">Joseph Compton-Rickett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dawnay,_1st_Viscount_Downe" title="John Dawnay, 1st Viscount Downe">John Dawnay, 1st Viscount Downe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Dawnay,_2nd_Viscount_Downe" title="Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe">Henry Dawnay, 2nd Viscount Downe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Dawnay_(MP)" title="John Dawnay (MP)">John Dawnay (MP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Culling_Eardley,_3rd_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet">Culling Eardley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Forrest" title="Walter Forrest">Walter Forrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Foljambe,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Francis Foljambe, 1st Baronet">Francis Foljambe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sambrooke_Freeman" title="Sambrooke Freeman">Sambrooke Freeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viscount_Galway" title="Viscount Galway">Viscount Galway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gully" title="John Gully">John Gully</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Gerard_Hamilton" title="William Gerard Hamilton">William Gerard Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Harper_(British_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Harper (British politician)">Joe Harper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hewley" title="John Hewley">John Hewley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Hills_(politician)" title="Adam Hills (politician)">Adam Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Houldsworth" title="Thomas Houldsworth">Thomas Houldsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jackson_(MP_for_Pontefract)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Jackson (MP for Pontefract)">John Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Lascelles,_2nd_Earl_of_Harewood" title="Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood">Henry Lascelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beilby_Lawley,_2nd_Baron_Wenlock" title="Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock">Beilby Lawley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lambert_(general)" title="John Lambert (general)">John Lambert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Lofthouse,_Baron_Lofthouse_of_Pontefract" class="mw-redirect" title="Geoffrey Lofthouse, Baron Lofthouse of Pontefract">Geoff Lofthouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lowther_(died_1729)" title="John Lowther (died 1729)">John Lowther</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Lowther_(1639%E2%80%931705)" title="William Lowther (1639–1705)">William Lowther (1639–1705)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Lowther_(died_1688)" title="William Lowther (died 1688)">William Lowther (died 1688)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Lowther,_1st_Baronet,_of_Swillington" title="Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington">Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Lowther,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet">Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Martin_(politician)" title="Samuel Martin (politician)">Samuel Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Mellish" title="Charles Mellish">Charles Mellish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Mexborough" title="Earl of Mexborough">Earl of Mexborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Monckton,_1st_Viscount_Galway" title="John Monckton, 1st Viscount Galway">John Monckton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Monckton_(died_1722)#MP_for_Pontefract" title="Robert Monckton (died 1722)">Robert Monckton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Monckton-Arundell,_4th_Viscount_Galway" title="Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway">Robert Monckton-Arundell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Monckton_Milnes,_1st_Baron_Houghton" title="Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton">Richard Monckton Milnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pemberton_Milnes" title="Robert Pemberton Milnes">Robert Pemberton Milnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Mordaunt_(British_Army_officer)" title="John Mordaunt (British Army officer)">John Mordaunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Nussey,_1st_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Nussey, 1st Baronet">Thomas Nussey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_O%27Brien_(British_politician)" title="Bill O'Brien (British politician)">Bill O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Morton_Pitt" title="George Morton Pitt">George Morton Pitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ramsden_(died_1646)" title="John Ramsden (died 1646)">John Ramsden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Harold_Reckitt,_2nd_Baronet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Harold Reckitt, 2nd Baronet">Harold Reckitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Sandys_(died_1623)" title="Edwin Sandys (died 1623)">Edwin Sandys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Savile,_1st_Marquess_of_Halifax" title="George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax">George Savile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Savile,_3rd_Earl_of_Mexborough" title="John Savile, 3rd Earl of Mexborough">John Savile, 3rd Earl of Mexborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Savile,_4th_Earl_of_Mexborough" title="John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough">John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Savile,_1st_Baron_Savile_of_Pontefract" title="John Savile, 1st Baron Savile of Pontefract">John Savile, 1st Baron Savile of Pontefract</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Savile_(died_1558)" title="Henry Savile (died 1558)">Henry Savile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Smith_(MP)" title="Nathaniel Smith (MP)">Nathaniel Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Smith_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tom Smith (UK politician)">Tom Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Smyth_(1748%E2%80%931811)" title="John Smyth (1748–1811)">John Smyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Sotheron-Estcourt" title="Thomas E. Sotheron-Estcourt">Thomas E. Sotheron-Estcourt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Stafford-Jerningham,_9th_Baron_Stafford" title="Henry Stafford-Jerningham, 9th Baron Stafford">Henry Stafford-Jerningham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Le_Gendre_Starkie_(1799%E2%80%931865)" title="Le Gendre Starkie (1799–1865)">Le Gendre Starkie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Sylvester" title="George Sylvester">George Sylvester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Waterhouse" title="Samuel Waterhouse">Samuel Waterhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowland_Winn,_2nd_Baron_St_Oswald" title="Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald">Rowland Winn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wentworth_(of_Wentworth_Woodhouse)" title="George Wentworth (of Wentworth Woodhouse)">George Wentworth (of Wentworth Woodhouse)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wentworth_(of_Woolley)" title="George Wentworth (of Woolley)">George Wentworth (of Woolley)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wentworth,_1st_Earl_of_Strafford" title="Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford">Thomas Wentworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_White_(MP)" class="mw-redirect" title="William White (MP)">William White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowland_Winn,_2nd_Baron_St_Oswald" title="Rowland Winn, 2nd Baron St Oswald">Rowland Winn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Woolf" title="Sidney Woolf">Sidney Woolf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Railway stations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Baghill_railway_station" title="Pontefract Baghill railway station">Baghill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Monkhill_railway_station" title="Pontefract Monkhill railway station">Monkhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Tanshelf_railway_station" title="Pontefract Tanshelf railway station">Tanshelf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Wakefield" title="Bishop of Wakefield">Religious leaders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Clarkson" title="George Clarkson">George Clarkson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Fallows" title="Gordon Fallows">Gordon Fallows</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Finney" title="John Finney">John Finney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Flack_(bishop)" title="John Flack (bishop)">John Flack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Frost" title="Rob Frost">Rob Frost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Greener" title="Jonathan Greener">Jonathan Greener</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hare_(bishop)" title="Richard Hare (bishop)">Richard Hare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_Hone" title="Campbell Hone">Campbell Hone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_House" title="Francis House">Francis House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_James_(bishop)" title="David James (bishop)">David James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Longworth" title="Tom Longworth">Tom Longworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Morris_(bishop)" title="Arthur Morris (bishop)">Arthur Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Robinson_(bishop)" title="Tony Robinson (bishop)">Tony Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Treacy" title="Eric Treacy">Eric Treacy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sport</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Racecourse" title="Pontefract Racecourse">Pontefract Racecourse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flying_Fillies%27_Stakes" title="Flying Fillies' Stakes">Flying Fillies' Stakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silver_Tankard_Stakes" title="Silver Tankard Stakes">Silver Tankard Stakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Collieries_F.C." title="Pontefract Collieries F.C.">Pontefract Collieries F.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_(rugby_league)" title="Pontefract (rugby league)">Pontefract (rugby league)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premier_Squash_League#AJP_Pontefract" title="Premier Squash League">Squash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kinsley_Greyhound_Stadium" title="Kinsley Greyhound Stadium">Kinsley Greyhound Stadium</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nearby towns, villages & districts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ackton" title="Ackton">Ackton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ackworth,_West_Yorkshire" title="Ackworth, West Yorkshire">Ackworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Badsworth" title="Badsworth">Badsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castleford" title="Castleford">Castleford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crofton,_West_Yorkshire" title="Crofton, West Yorkshire">Crofton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darrington,_West_Yorkshire" title="Darrington, West Yorkshire">Darrington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Hardwick" title="East Hardwick">East Hardwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairburn,_North_Yorkshire" title="Fairburn, North Yorkshire">Fairburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Featherstone" title="Featherstone">Featherstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferrybridge" title="Ferrybridge">Ferrybridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzwilliam,_West_Yorkshire" title="Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire">Fitzwilliam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasshoughton" title="Glasshoughton">Glasshoughton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knottingley" title="Knottingley">Knottingley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monkhill,_West_Yorkshire" title="Monkhill, West Yorkshire">Monkhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moorthorpe" title="Moorthorpe">Moorthorpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Normanton,_West_Yorkshire" title="Normanton, West Yorkshire">Normanton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nostell" title="Nostell">Nostell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thorpe_Audlin" title="Thorpe Audlin">Thorpe Audlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upton,_West_Yorkshire" title="Upton, West Yorkshire">Upton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wentbridge" title="Wentbridge">Wentbridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:People_from_Pontefract" title="Category:People from Pontefract">People</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Baxendale" title="Helen Baxendale">Helen Baxendale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Bentley_(soldier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Percy Bentley (soldier)">Percy Bentley (soldier)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Coleman_(English_painter)" title="Charles Coleman (English painter)">Charles Coleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Culpeper#Affair_with_Catherine_Howard" title="Thomas Culpeper">Thomas Culpeper & Catherine Howard (1540)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Maude" title="Arthur Maude">Arthur Maude (films)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Nevison" title="John Nevison">John Nevison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Pears" title="Charles Pears">Charles Pears</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Tempest" title="Edmund Tempest">Edmund Tempest</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other information</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_bus_station" title="Pontefract bus station">Pontefract bus station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Museum" title="Pontefract Museum">Pontefract Museum</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pontefract" title="Category:Pontefract">Category listings</a></li></ul> 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