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</div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 17 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 18 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" 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Available in 51 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-51" aria-hidden="true" > 51 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF" title="ويكفيلد – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ويكفيلد" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AF" title="ویکفیلد – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ویکفیلد" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BA%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B4" title="Уейкфийлд – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Уейкфийлд" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_(West_Yorkshire)" title="Wakefield (West Yorkshire) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Wakefield (West Yorkshire)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_(kapital_sa_kondado)" title="Wakefield (kapital sa kondado) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Wakefield (kapital sa kondado)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CF%85%CE%AD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%BD%CF%84" title="Ουέικφιλντ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ουέικφιλντ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%AF" title="ویکفیلد – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویکفیلد" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9B%A8%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC%ED%95%84%EB%93%9C" title="웨이크필드 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="웨이크필드" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%88%D6%82%D5%A5%D5%B5%D6%84%D6%86%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%A4" title="Ուեյքֆիլդ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ուեյքֆիլդ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikf%C4%ABlda" title="Veikfīlda – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Veikfīlda" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikfildas" title="Veikfildas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Veikfildas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF" title="ويكفيلد – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ويكفيلد" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_(plaats)" title="Wakefield (plaats) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Wakefield (plaats)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89_(%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89)" title="ウェイクフィールド (イングランド) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ウェイクフィールド (イングランド)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nordfriisk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield" title="Wakefield – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Wakefield" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg/78px-The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg" decoding="async" width="78" height="104" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg/117px-The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg/156px-The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1712" data-file-height="2288" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:119px;max-width:119px"><div style="height:87px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_Cathedral_from_east.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Wakefield_Cathedral_from_east.JPG/117px-Wakefield_Cathedral_from_east.JPG" decoding="async" width="117" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Wakefield_Cathedral_from_east.JPG/176px-Wakefield_Cathedral_from_east.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Wakefield_Cathedral_from_east.JPG/234px-Wakefield_Cathedral_from_east.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:119px;max-width:119px"><div style="height:87px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:At_Pugneys_Country_Park,_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5137405.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/At_Pugneys_Country_Park%2C_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5137405.jpg/117px-At_Pugneys_Country_Park%2C_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5137405.jpg" decoding="async" width="117" height="88" 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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Coat_of_arms_of_Wakefield.svg/100px-Coat_of_arms_of_Wakefield.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="107" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Coat_of_arms_of_Wakefield.svg/150px-Coat_of_arms_of_Wakefield.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Coat_of_arms_of_Wakefield.svg/200px-Coat_of_arms_of_Wakefield.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="546" /></a><div>Coat of arms</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/West_Yorkshire_UK_location_map.svg/360px-West_Yorkshire_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/West_Yorkshire_UK_location_map.svg/480px-West_Yorkshire_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="1039" /></a><div class="od notheme" style="top:61.979%;left:71.652%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><img alt="Wakefield" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:4px"><div>Wakefield</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">11.3 sq mi (29 km2)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">109,767 (2021)[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>]</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">Density</a></th><td class="infobox-data">9,714/sq mi (3,751/km2)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=53.679895~-1.494308&lvl=13&sp=Point.53.679895_-1.494308_Wakefield&sty=s&style=s">SE335205</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></th><td class="infobox-data">160 mi</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 rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_and_the_Humber" title="Yorkshire and the Humber">Yorkshire and the Humber</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td 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href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">WAKEFIELD</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/WF_postcode_area" title="WF postcode area">WF1-WF4</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01924</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Police" title="West Yorkshire Police">West Yorkshire</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service">West Yorkshire</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Ambulance_Service" title="Yorkshire Ambulance Service">Yorkshire</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency)">Wakefield</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hemsworth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hemsworth (UK Parliament constituency)">Hemsworth</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Normanton,_Pontefract_and_Castleford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (UK Parliament constituency)">Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Morley_and_Outwood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Morley and Outwood (UK Parliament constituency)">Morley and Outwood</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style 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.hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>List of places</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Yorkshire" title="List of places in Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a></dd></dl></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Wakefield&params=53_40_57_N_1_29_51_W_type:city_region:GB-WKF">53°40′57″N 1°29′51″W / 53.68250°N 1.49750°W / 53.68250; -1.49750</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Wakefield is a <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">cathedral city</a><a href="#cite_note-1">[a]</a> in <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a>, England located on the <a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_West_Yorkshire" title="River Calder, West Yorkshire">River Calder</a>. The city had a population of 109,766 in the <a href="/wiki/2021_United_Kingdom_census" title="2021 United Kingdom census">2021 census</a>, up from 99,251 in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Census_for_England_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Census for England and Wales">2011 census</a>.<a href="#cite_note-2">[1]</a> The city is the administrative centre of the wider <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Wakefield" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield">Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield</a>, which had a 2022 population of 357,729, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by_population" title="List of English districts by population">26th</a> most populous district in England. It is part of the <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Built-up_Area" title="West Yorkshire Built-up Area">West Yorkshire Built-up Area</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_and_The_Humber" class="mw-redirect" title="Yorkshire and The Humber">Yorkshire and The Humber</a> region. In 1888, it gained city status due to <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Cathedral" title="Wakefield Cathedral">its cathedral</a>. The city has a <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Town_Hall" title="Wakefield Town Hall">town hall</a> and is home to the <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_County_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield County Hall">county hall</a>, which was the former administrative centre of the city's <a href="/wiki/County_borough" title="County borough">county borough</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_borough" title="Metropolitan borough">metropolitan borough</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">county town</a> for the <a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">West Riding of Yorkshire</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wakefield" title="Battle of Wakefield">Battle of Wakefield</a> took place in the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a>, and the city was a <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> stronghold in the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">Civil War</a>. Wakefield became an important <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a> and centre for wool, exploiting its position on the navigable River Calder to become an <a href="/wiki/Inland_port" title="Inland port">inland port</a>. In the 18th century, Wakefield traded in corn, coal and textiles. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Toponymy">Toponymy</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Toponymy">edit</a>]</div> The name Wakefield may derive from "Waca's field" – the open land belonging to someone named "Waca" or could have evolved from the <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> word wacu, meaning "a watch or wake", and feld, an open field in which a wake or festival was held.<a href="#cite_note-3">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[3]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> of 1086, it was written Wachefeld and also as Wachefelt. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early history">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Flint" title="Flint">Flint</a> and stone tools and later <a href="/wiki/Bronze" title="Bronze">bronze</a> and iron implements have been found at Lee Moor and Lupset in the Wakefield area showing evidence of human activity since prehistoric times.<a href="#cite_note-5">[4]</a> This part of Yorkshire was home to the <a href="/wiki/Brigantes" title="Brigantes">Brigantes</a> until the Roman occupation in AD 43. A Roman road from <a href="/wiki/Pontefract" title="Pontefract">Pontefract</a> passing Streethouse, Heath Common, Ossett Street Side, through <a href="/wiki/Kirklees" title="Kirklees">Kirklees</a> and on to <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a> crossed the <a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_West_Yorkshire" title="River Calder, West Yorkshire">River Calder</a> by a ford at Wakefield near the site of <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield Bridge">Wakefield Bridge</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[5]</a> A large group of coin moulds, the <a href="/wiki/Lingwell_Gate_coin_moulds" title="Lingwell Gate coin moulds">Lingwell Gate coin moulds</a>, representing Romano-British coin forgery were found at Lingwell Gate between 1697 and 1879.<a href="#cite_note-Til-7">[6]</a> Wakefield was probably occupied again, this time by the <a href="/wiki/Angles_(tribe)" title="Angles (tribe)">Angles</a>, in the 5th or 6th century, and after AD 876 the area was controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Vikings" title="Vikings">Vikings</a> who founded twelve hamlets or thorpes around Wakefield.<a href="#cite_note-9">[nb 1]</a> They divided the area into <a href="/wiki/Wapentakes" class="mw-redirect" title="Wapentakes">wapentakes</a> and Wakefield was part of the <a href="/wiki/Agbrigg_and_Morley" title="Agbrigg and Morley">Wapentake of Agbrigg</a>. The settlement grew near a crossing place on the River Calder around three roads, <a href="/wiki/Westgate_(Wakefield)" title="Westgate (Wakefield)">Westgate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northgate_(Wakefield)" title="Northgate (Wakefield)">Northgate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kirkgate_(Wakefield)" title="Kirkgate (Wakefield)">Kirkgate</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_EarlyHistory-10">[8]</a> The "gate" suffix derives from Old Norse gata meaning road<a href="#cite_note-11">[9]</a> and kirk, from kirkja indicates there was a church.<a href="#cite_note-12">[10]</a> Before 1066 the <a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">manor</a> of Wakefield belonged to <a href="/wiki/Edward_the_Confessor" title="Edward the Confessor">Edward the Confessor</a> and it passed to <a href="/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" title="William the Conqueror">William the Conqueror</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings" title="Battle of Hastings">Battle of Hastings</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[11]</a> After the <a href="/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman conquest of England">Conquest</a> Wakefield was a victim of the <a href="/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North" title="Harrying of the North">Harrying of the North</a> in 1069 when William the Conqueror took revenge on the local population for resistance to Norman rule. The settlement was recorded as Wachfeld in the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> of 1086, and covered a much greater area than present day Wakefield, much of which was described as "waste".<a href="#cite_note-Manor_of_Wakefield-14">[12]</a> The manor was granted by <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">the crown</a> to <a href="/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_1st_Earl_of_Surrey" title="William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey">William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey</a> whose descendants, the Earls Warenne, inherited it after his death in 1088.<a href="#cite_note-15">[13]</a> The construction of <a href="/wiki/Sandal_Castle" title="Sandal Castle">Sandal Castle</a> began early in the 12th century.<a href="#cite_note-16">[14]</a> A second castle, <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Castle" title="Wakefield Castle">Wakefield Castle</a>, was built at Lawe Hill on the north side of the Calder but was abandoned.<a href="#cite_note-17">[15]</a> Wakefield and its environs formed the <a href="/wiki/Caput_baroniae" title="Caput baroniae">caput</a> of an extensive baronial holding by the Warennes that extended to <a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>. The Warennes, and their <a href="/wiki/Feudal" class="mw-redirect" title="Feudal">feudal</a> sublords, held the area until the 14th century, when it passed to their heirs.<a href="#cite_note-18">[16]</a> Norman tenants holding land in the region included the <a href="/wiki/Levett" title="Levett">Lyvet</a> family at Lupset.<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a> The Domesday Book recorded two churches, one in Wakefield and one in <a href="/wiki/Sandal_Magna" title="Sandal Magna">Sandal Magna</a>.<a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> The Saxon church in Wakefield was rebuilt in about 1100 in stone in the <a href="/wiki/Norman_architecture" title="Norman architecture">Norman</a> style and was continually enlarged until 1315 when the central tower collapsed. By 1420 the church was again rebuilt and was extended between 1458 and 1475. In 1203 <a href="/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_5th_Earl_of_Surrey" title="William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey">William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey</a> received a grant for a market in the town.<a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_1066-1600-21">[19]</a> In 1204 <a href="/wiki/John,_King_of_England" title="John, King of England">King John</a> granted the rights for a fair at the feast of <a href="/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day" title="All Saints' Day">All Saints</a>, 1 November, and in 1258 <a href="/wiki/Henry_III_of_England" title="Henry III of England">Henry III</a> granted the right for fair on the feast of Saint John the Baptist, 24 June. The market was close to the Bull Ring and the church.<a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_1066-1600-21">[19]</a> The townsfolk of Wakefield amused themselves in games and sports, the chief sport in the 14th century was <a href="/wiki/Archery" title="Archery">archery</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Archery_butts" class="mw-redirect" title="Archery butts">butts</a> in Wakefield were at the <a href="/wiki/Ings" title="Ings">Ings</a>, near the river.<a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a> Wakefield was dubbed the "Merrie City" in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>.<a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_of_York_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_858000.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Richard_of_York_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_858000.jpg/120px-Richard_of_York_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_858000.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Richard_of_York_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_858000.jpg/180px-Richard_of_York_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_858000.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Richard_of_York_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_858000.jpg/240px-Richard_of_York_Memorial_-_geograph.org.uk_-_858000.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Memorial to the <a href="/wiki/Richard_of_York,_3rd_Duke_of_York" title="Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York">Duke of York</a>, killed in battle, 1460</figcaption></figure> During the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_of_York,_3rd_Duke_of_York" title="Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York">Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York</a> was killed on 30 December 1460 in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wakefield" title="Battle of Wakefield">Battle of Wakefield</a> near Sandal Castle. In <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> times Wakefield became an inland port on the Calder and centre for the woollen and <a href="/wiki/Tanning_(leather)" title="Tanning (leather)">tanning</a> trades. In 1538 <a href="/wiki/John_Leland_(antiquary)" title="John Leland (antiquary)">John Leland</a> described Wakefield as, "a very quick market-towne and meately large; well served of flesch and fisch, both from the se and by rivers, whereof divers be thereabout at hande, so that al vitaile is very gode chepe there. A right honest man shal fare well for two pens a meale". As preparation for the impending invasion by the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Armada" title="Spanish Armada">Spanish Armada</a> in April 1588, 400 men from the wapentake of Morley and Agbrigg were summoned to Bruntcliffe near <a href="/wiki/Morley,_West_Yorkshire" title="Morley, West Yorkshire">Morley</a> with their weapons. Men from Kirkgate, Westgate, Northgate and Sandal were amongst them and all returned by August.<a href="#cite_note-24">[22]</a> At the time of the Civil War, Wakefield was a <a href="/wiki/Cavalier" title="Cavalier">Royalist</a> stronghold. An attack led by Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fairfax" title="Thomas Fairfax">Thomas Fairfax</a> on 20 May 1643 captured the town for the <a href="/wiki/Roundhead" title="Roundhead">Parliamentarians</a>. Over 1500 troops were taken prisoner along with the Royalist commander, <a href="/wiki/George_Goring,_Lord_Goring" title="George Goring, Lord Goring">Lieutenant-General Goring</a>.<a href="#cite_note-British_Civil_Wars-25">[23]</a> In 1699 an Act of Parliament was passed creating the <a href="/wiki/Aire_and_Calder_Navigation" title="Aire and Calder Navigation">Aire and Calder Navigation</a> which provided the town with access to the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_1600-1800-26">[24]</a> The first Registry of Deeds in the country opened in 1704 and in 1765 Wakefield's cattle market was established and became the one of largest in the north of England. The town was a centre for cloth dealing, with its own piece hall, the Tammy Hall, built in 1766.<a href="#cite_note-Old_Wakefield-27">[25]</a> In the late 1700s <a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian</a> town houses and St John's Church were built to the north of the town centre.<a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_1600-1800-26">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-St_Johns_Church-28">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Industrial_Revolution">Industrial Revolution</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Industrial Revolution">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_Westgate.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Wakefield_Westgate.jpg/220px-Wakefield_Westgate.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Wakefield_Westgate.jpg/330px-Wakefield_Westgate.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Wakefield_Westgate.jpg/440px-Wakefield_Westgate.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1622" data-file-height="1039" /></a><figcaption>Wakefield Westgate <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1900</figcaption></figure> At the start of the 19th century Wakefield was a wealthy market town and inland port trading in wool and grain.<a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Aire_and_Calder_Navigation" title="Aire and Calder Navigation">Aire and Calder</a> and <a href="/wiki/Calder_and_Hebble_Navigation" title="Calder and Hebble Navigation">Calder and Hebble Navigations</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Barnsley_Canal" title="Barnsley Canal">Barnsley Canal</a> were instrumental in the development of Wakefield as an important market for grain and more was sold here than at any other market in the north. Large warehouses were built on the river banks to store grain from <a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> to supply the fast-growing population in the <a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">West Riding of Yorkshire</a>. Great quantities of barley were grown in the neighbourhood and in 1885 more <a href="/wiki/Malt" title="Malt">malt</a> was made in Wakefield "than in any district of equal extent in the kingdom".<a href="#cite_note-TDE-30">[28]</a> The market developed in the streets around the Bull Ring, and the cattle market between George Street and Ings Road grew to be one of the biggest in the country.<a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a> Road transport using <a href="/wiki/Turnpike_trust" title="Turnpike trust">turnpiked</a> roads was important. Regular <a href="/wiki/Mail_coach" title="Mail coach">mail coaches</a> departed to <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, Manchester, <a href="/wiki/York" title="York">York</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a> and the 'Strafford Arms' was an important <a href="/wiki/Coaching_inn" title="Coaching inn">coaching inn</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a> The railways arrived in Wakefield in 1840 when <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Kirkgate_railway_station" title="Wakefield Kirkgate railway station">Kirkgate station</a> was built on the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_and_Leeds_Railway" title="Manchester and Leeds Railway">Manchester and Leeds Railway</a>. When cloth dealing declined, wool spinning mills using steam power were built by the river. There was a glass works in Calder Vale Road, several <a href="/wiki/Brewery" title="Brewery">breweries</a> including Melbourne's and Beverley's Eagle Breweries, engineering works with strong links to the mining industry, soapworks and brickyards in Eastmoor, giving the town a diverse economy.<a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_1800-1900-34">[32]</a> Boats and <a href="/wiki/Sloop" title="Sloop">sloops</a> were built at yards on the Calder.<a href="#cite_note-TDE-30">[28]</a> On the outskirts of the town, coal had been dug since the 15th century and 300 men were employed in the town's coal pits in 1831.<a href="#cite_note-Old_Wakefield-27">[25]</a> During the 19th century more mines were sunk so that there were 46 small mines in Wakefield and the surrounding area by 1869.<a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_1800-1900-34">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[33]</a> The <a href="/wiki/National_Coal_Board" title="National Coal Board">National Coal Board</a> eventually became Wakefield's largest employer with Manor Colliery on Cross Lane and Park Hill colliery at Eastmoor surviving until 1982.<a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a> Wakefield was also the site of the founding of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Miners%27_Association_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Miners' Association of Great Britain and Ireland (page does not exist)">Miners' Association of Great Britain and Ireland</a>, the country's first national trade union for miners, in 1842.<a href="#cite_note-37">[35]</a> During the 19th century Wakefield became the administrative centre for the <a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">West Riding</a>, when many familiar buildings were constructed.<a href="#cite_note-Taylor_2008_43-38">[36]</a> The first civic building in Wood Street, <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Court_House" title="Wakefield Court House">Wakefield Court House</a>, was built in 1810.<a href="#cite_note-39">[37]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Royd_Hospital" title="Stanley Royd Hospital">West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum</a> was built at Stanley Royd, just outside the town on Aberford Road in 1816. During the 19th century, the Wakefield Asylum played a central role in the development of British psychiatry, with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Maudsley" title="Henry Maudsley">Henry Maudsley</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Crichton-Browne" title="James Crichton-Browne">James Crichton-Browne</a> amongst its medical staff. Most of it is now demolished. The old House of Correction of 1595 was rebuilt as <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Prison" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield Prison">Wakefield Prison</a> in 1847.<a href="#cite_note-Prison-40">[38]</a> Wakefield Union workhouse<a href="#cite_note-workhouses-41">[39]</a> was built on Park Lodge Lane, Eastmoor in 1853 and Clayton Hospital was built in 1854 after a donation from Alderman Thomas Clayton.<a href="#cite_note-Taylor_2008_43-38">[36]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Mechanics%27_Institute" title="Wakefield Mechanics' Institute">Wakefield Mechanics' Institute</a> containing an Assembly Room, public library and newsroom supported by subscription was built in Wood Street in 1820–1821 in the <a href="/wiki/Classical_style" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical style">Classical style</a> with <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic</a> details. Wakefield Literary Society ran there from 1827 until the 20th century and its Geological Society left artefacts to Wakefield Museum.<a href="#cite_note-TDE-30">[28]</a> Up to 1837 Wakefield relied on wells and springs for its water supply; water from the River Calder was polluted, and various water supply schemes were unsuccessful until <a href="/wiki/Reservoir" title="Reservoir">reservoirs</a> on the Rishworth Moors and a service reservoir at Ardsley were built providing clean water from 1888.<a href="#cite_note-42">[40]</a> By 1885 the streets of the town were paved and flagged and lit with gas supplied by a company incorporated in 1822.<a href="#cite_note-TDE-30">[28]</a> Between 1870 and 1885 they made improvements on the north side of town around St John's Church now a <a href="/wiki/Conservation_area" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservation area">conservation area</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 20th century">edit</a>]</div> On 2 June 1906, <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie" title="Andrew Carnegie">Andrew Carnegie</a> opened a new Wakefield Library on Drury Lane which had been built with a grant of £8,000 from the Carnegie Trust.<a href="#cite_note-44">[42]</a> There are seven <a href="/wiki/Council_house" title="Council house">ex-council estates</a> in Wakefield which the council started to build after the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, the oldest is Portobello, the largest is Lupset and the rest are <a href="/wiki/Flanshaw" title="Flanshaw">Flanshaw</a>, Plumpton, Peacock, Eastmoor and <a href="/wiki/Kettlethorpe,_West_Yorkshire" title="Kettlethorpe, West Yorkshire">Kettlethorpe</a>. Homes not bought by occupants under the <a href="/wiki/Right_to_Buy" title="Right to Buy">Right to Buy</a> scheme were transferred to a registered social landlord, Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) in 2005.<a href="#cite_note-WDH-45">[43]</a> The outlying villages of <a href="/wiki/Sandal_Magna" title="Sandal Magna">Sandal Magna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belle_Vue_(Wakefield)" title="Belle Vue (Wakefield)">Belle Vue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Agbrigg" title="Agbrigg">Agbrigg</a> have become suburbs of Wakefield. The glass and textile industries closed in the 1970s and 1980s, and coal faced competition from alternative sources and demand decreased. The coal mines around Wakefield were amongst the first in Yorkshire to close under the government of <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>, which altered the national energy policy from a reliance on British coal and opposed the political power of the <a href="/wiki/National_Union_of_Mineworkers_(Great_Britain)" title="National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain)">NUM</a>. Between 1979 and 1983, the pits at Lofthouse, Manor, Newmarket, Newmillerdam, Parkhill and Walton all closed.<a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a> As the Wakefield pits closed, the <a href="/wiki/Selby_Coalfield" title="Selby Coalfield">Selby Coalfield</a> was being opened, many colliers in Wakefield accepted offers to transfer to the new pits which were built to facilitate commuting.<a href="#cite_note-47">[45]</a> An April 2021 article in <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> discussed nearby Heath (or Heath Common), the "village of the [200 year old] mansions", located "around the edge of the green". These housed the wealthy merchants and business owners.<a href="#cite_note-48">[46]</a> The local newspaper published specifics about one of the mansions in March 2021: Dower House was built <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1740; it was constructed for John Smyth by <a href="/wiki/John_Carr_(architect)" title="John Carr (architect)">John Carr</a>, of Yorkshire stone, and "retains many original features". It was intended to house widows.<a href="#cite_note-49">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[48]</a> The Dower House is a Grade II*listed property; it was modified in the early 1800s.<a href="#cite_note-51">[49]</a> The nearby <a href="/wiki/Heath_Hall,_Heath,_West_Yorkshire" title="Heath Hall, Heath, West Yorkshire">Heath Hall, Heath</a>, West Yorkshire, formerly known as Eshald House, was also built <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1709 for the wealthy wool trader, John Smyth. The Hall was modified by John Carr between 1754 and 1780 for the original owner's nephew (also known as John Smyth). The Hall is a Grade I listed building.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Governance">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_(new)_Town_Hall,_Wood_Street,_Wakefield.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg/170px-The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg/255px-The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg/340px-The_%28new%29_Town_Hall%2C_Wood_Street%2C_Wakefield.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1712" data-file-height="2288" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Town_Hall" title="Wakefield Town Hall">Wakefield Town Hall</a></figcaption></figure> Wakefield was anciently a market and parish town in the Agbrigg division of the <a href="/wiki/Wapentake" class="mw-redirect" title="Wapentake">wapentake</a> of <a href="/wiki/Agbrigg_and_Morley" title="Agbrigg and Morley">Agbrigg and Morley</a> in the <a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">West Riding of Yorkshire</a>. It became a parliamentary borough with one Member of Parliament after the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Act_1832" title="Reform Act 1832">Reform Act 1832</a>. In 1836 the Wakefield <a href="/wiki/Poor_law_union" title="Poor law union">Poor Law Union</a> was formed following the <a href="/wiki/Poor_Law_Amendment_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor Law Amendment Act">Poor Law Amendment Act</a> 1834 with an elected board of guardians.<a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a> The town was incorporated as a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal borough</a> with elected councillors in 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a> Wakefield was the de facto seat of regional government in Yorkshire for two centuries and became the county headquarters of the West Riding County Council created by the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1888" title="Local Government Act 1888">Local Government Act 1888</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a> After Wakefield was elevated to a diocese in 1888, Wakefield council sought city status which was granted the same year.<a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a> Wakefield became a <a href="/wiki/County_borough" title="County borough">county borough</a> in 1913.<a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a> In 1974, under the terms of the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, the county borough became defunct as it merged with surrounding local authorities to become the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Wakefield" title="City of Wakefield">City of Wakefield</a> district. Today the city is the headquarters of <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Metropolitan_District_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield Metropolitan District Council">Wakefield Metropolitan District Council</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Ambulance_Service" title="Yorkshire Ambulance Service">Yorkshire Ambulance Service</a> and <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Police" title="West Yorkshire Police">West Yorkshire Police</a>.<a href="#cite_note-AboutWakefield-58">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-lgyh-59">[57]</a> Since 1987, the district council has been based in <a href="/wiki/County_Hall,_Wakefield" title="County Hall, Wakefield">County Hall</a>.<a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a> Wakefield is covered by four electoral wards (Wakefield East, Wakefield North, Wakefield South and Wakefield West) of the Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Each ward elects three councillors to the 63-member metropolitan district council, Wakefield's local authority. In 2015 all the councillors elected for Wakefield East, North and West were members of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> and the councillors for Wakefield South represent the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>.<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] The parliamentary seat of <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wakefield (UK Parliament constituency)">Wakefield</a> had been held by the Labour Party continuously from 1932 until the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>, when the Conservative Party's <a href="/wiki/Imran_Ahmad_Khan" title="Imran Ahmad Khan">Imran Ahmad Khan</a> defeated the incumbent <a href="/wiki/Mary_Creagh" title="Mary Creagh">Mary Creagh</a>.<a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a> The Conservative Party expelled Khan from the party on 11 April 2022, following a conviction of sexual assault.<a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a> He announced three days after his conviction that he would be resigning as an MP, and left his post on 3 May, triggering the <a href="/wiki/2022_Wakefield_by-election" title="2022 Wakefield by-election">2022 Wakefield by-election</a>,<a href="#cite_note-64">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[63]</a> which was held on 23 June and won by Labour's <a href="/wiki/Simon_Lightwood" title="Simon Lightwood">Simon Lightwood</a>. The Wakefield South ward covering Sandal, Kettlethorpe, Agbrigg and Belle Vue, is in the <a href="/wiki/Hemsworth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hemsworth (UK Parliament constituency)">Hemsworth constituency</a>, represented by the Labour party's <a href="/wiki/Jon_Trickett" title="Jon Trickett">Jon Trickett</a> since 1996. He was re-elected in May 2010,<a href="#cite_note-66">[64]</a> and returned in 2015 with 51.3% of the vote.<a href="#cite_note-Hemsworth_2015-67">[65]</a> The seat has been held by the Labour Party since its creation in 1918. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Geography">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fall_Ing,_Wakefield_(15946442051).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Fall_Ing%2C_Wakefield_%2815946442051%29.jpg/220px-Fall_Ing%2C_Wakefield_%2815946442051%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Fall_Ing%2C_Wakefield_%2815946442051%29.jpg/330px-Fall_Ing%2C_Wakefield_%2815946442051%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Fall_Ing%2C_Wakefield_%2815946442051%29.jpg/440px-Fall_Ing%2C_Wakefield_%2815946442051%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3897" data-file-height="2338" /></a><figcaption>River Calder</figcaption></figure> Wakefield is 9 miles (14 km) south-east of Leeds and 28 miles (45 km) south-west of York on the eastern edge of the <a href="/wiki/Pennines" title="Pennines">Pennines</a> in the lower Calder Valley. The city centre is sited on a low hill on the north bank of the <a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_West_Yorkshire" title="River Calder, West Yorkshire">River Calder</a> close to a crossing place where it is spanned by the 14th-century, nine-arched, stone <a href="/wiki/Chantry_Bridge" title="Chantry Bridge">Chantry Bridge</a> and a reinforced concrete bridge built in 1929–1930.<a href="#cite_note-Wakefield_Bridge-68">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-Wakefield_New_Bridge-69">[67]</a> It is at the junction of major north–south routes to Sheffield, Leeds and Doncaster and west–east routes to Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Pontefract. Wakefield is within the area of the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire & Yorkshire coalfield and lies on the middle <a href="/wiki/Coal_measure" class="mw-redirect" title="Coal measure">coal measures</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstones</a> laid down in the <a href="/wiki/Carboniferous" title="Carboniferous">Carboniferous</a> period.<a href="#cite_note-70">[68]</a> Wakefield includes the former outlying villages of <a href="/wiki/Alverthorpe" title="Alverthorpe">Alverthorpe</a>, Thornes, Sandal, Portobello, Belle Vue, Agbrigg, Lupset, Kettlethorpe and Flanshaw. In the 2011 Census, Newton Hill, Outwood, Stanley and Wrenthorpe were counted as parts of Wakefield, having been classified separately in the 2001 Census. <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Wakefield </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 (44) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 (44) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9 (49) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12 (53) </td> <td style="background: #FFAF60; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16 (60) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18 (65) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21 (69) </td> <td style="background: #FF8D1B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21 (69) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17 (63) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13 (56) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9 (49) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 (45) </td> <td style="background: #FFC489; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">13 (56) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2 (36) </td> <td style="background: #F1F1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2 (36) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3 (37) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4 (39) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 (45) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10 (50) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12 (54) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12 (54) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10 (50) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7 (45) </td> <td style="background: #FCFCFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4 (39) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3 (37) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6 (44) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #7D7DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">87 (3.41) </td> <td style="background: #9696FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64 (2.50) </td> <td style="background: #9999FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68 (2.67) </td> <td style="background: #9F9FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62 (2.46) </td> <td style="background: #ABABFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">56 (2.19) </td> <td style="background: #9797FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">67 (2.63) </td> <td style="background: #B3B3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51 (2.01) </td> <td style="background: #9F9FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64 (2.50) </td> <td style="background: #9C9CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64 (2.53) </td> <td style="background: #9090FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">74 (2.91) </td> <td style="background: #8686FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">78 (3.06) </td> <td style="background: #7575FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">92 (3.62) </td> <td style="background: #9696FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">827 (32.49) </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a href="#cite_note-71">[69]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neighbouring_towns_and_places">Neighbouring towns and places</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Neighbouring towns and places">edit</a>]</div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox 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(November 2022)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" id="toc" style="float:right; margin-left: 1em; width: 40%; font-size: 90%;" cellspacing="5"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="4">Wakefield Compared in 2008 </th></tr> <tr> <td>2008 UK Population Estimates<a href="#cite_note-72">[70]</a></td> <td>Wakefield</td> <td>Yorkshire and the Humber</td> <td>England </td></tr> <tr> <td>Total population</td> <td>322,300</td> <td>5,213,200</td> <td>51,446,200 </td></tr> <tr> <td>White</td> <td>95.7%</td> <td>90.6%</td> <td>88.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Asian</td> <td>2.4%</td> <td>5.7%</td> <td>5.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Black</td> <td>0.5%</td> <td>1.3%</td> <td>2.8% </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gill_Sike_House_-_Horbury_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_679331.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gill_Sike_House_-_Horbury_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_679331.jpg/220px-Gill_Sike_House_-_Horbury_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_679331.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gill_Sike_House_-_Horbury_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_679331.jpg/330px-Gill_Sike_House_-_Horbury_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_679331.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gill_Sike_House_-_Horbury_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_679331.jpg/440px-Gill_Sike_House_-_Horbury_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_679331.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="483" /></a><figcaption>Gill Sike House, Horbury Road</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Silcoates_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_993735.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Silcoates_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_993735.jpg/220px-Silcoates_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_993735.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Silcoates_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_993735.jpg/330px-Silcoates_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_993735.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Silcoates_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_993735.jpg/440px-Silcoates_Street_-_geograph.org.uk_-_993735.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Terraced housing on Silcoates Street</figcaption></figure> In 2001 the Wakefield subdivision of the <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="West Yorkshire Urban Area">West Yorkshire Urban Area</a> had a population of 76,886<a href="#cite_note-KS01-73">[71]</a> comprising 37,477 males and 39,409 females.<a href="#cite_note-KS01-73">[71]</a> Also at the time of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">2001 UK census</a>, the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Wakefield" title="City of Wakefield">City of Wakefield</a> had a total population of 315,172 of whom 161,962 were female and 153,210 were male. Of the 132,212 households in Wakefield, 39.56% were married couples living together, 28.32% were one-person households, 9.38% were <a href="/wiki/Cohabiting" class="mw-redirect" title="Cohabiting">cohabiting</a> couples and 9.71% were lone parents. The figures for lone-parent households were slightly above the national average of 9.5%, and the percentage of married couples was above the national average of 36.5%; the proportion of one-person households was below the national average of 30.1%.<a href="#cite_note-74">[72]</a> The population density was 9.31/km2 (24.1/sq mi). Of those aged 16–74 in Wakefield, 39.14% had no <a href="/wiki/National_Qualifications_Framework" class="mw-redirect" title="National Qualifications Framework">academic qualifications</a>, much higher than 28.9% in all of England. Of Wakefield's residents, 2.53% were born outside the United Kingdom, significantly lower than the national average of 9.2%. The largest minority group was recorded as Asian, at 1.41% of the population.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The number of theft-from-a-vehicle offences and theft of a vehicle per 1,000 of the population was 7.9 and 3.9 compared to the English national average of 6.3 and 2.3 respectively.<a href="#cite_note-CrimeFigs-75">[73]</a> The number of sexual offences was 0.9, in line with the national average.<a href="#cite_note-CrimeFigs-75">[73]</a> The national average of violence against another person was 16.7 compared to the Wakefield average of 15.<a href="#cite_note-CrimeFigs-75">[73]</a> The figures for crime statistics were all recorded during the 2008–09 financial year. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Population_change">Population change</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Population change">edit</a>]</div> Wakefield had a population of 76,886 in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-Census2001tableKS01-76">[74]</a> At the 2011 Census, the population was given as 99,251.<a href="#cite_note-2011Census-77">[75]</a> However, these two estimates are not directly comparable, as the 2001 Census did not classify the old <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Urban_District,_Yorkshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanley Urban District, Yorkshire">Stanley Urban District</a> as part of Wakefield whereas the 2011 Census classified all settlements in this area except <a href="/wiki/Bottom_Boat" title="Bottom Boat">Bottom Boat</a> (a small village built for Newmarket Colliery workers) as parts of Wakefield. <table class="wikitable" style="width:70%; border:0; text-align:center; line-height:120%;"> <caption>Population growth in Wakefield from 1881 to 1961 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th style="background:#9cc; color:navy; height:17px;">Year </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1881 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1891 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1901 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1911 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1921 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1931 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1939 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1951 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1961 </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th style="background:#9cc; color:navy; height:17px;">Population </th> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">22,173 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">23,315 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">24,107 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">43,588 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">52,891 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">59,122 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">56,963 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">60,371 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">61,268 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="12" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;"> Wakefield RSD 1881 – 1911<a href="#cite_note-visionofbritain-78">[76]</a> Wakefield MB/CB 1921 – 1961<a href="#cite_note-visionofbritain2-79">[77]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Economy">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red_Asia_Australia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be updated. 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(November 2022)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable" id="toc" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align:center" cellspacing="5"> <caption>Wakefield Compared </caption> <tbody><tr> <td><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">2001 UK Census</a></td> <td>Wakefield</td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Urban_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="West Yorkshire Urban Area">WY Urban Area</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Population (16–74)</td> <td>55,789</td> <td>1,072,276</td> <td>35,532,091 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Full-time employment</td> <td>39.7%</td> <td>39.5%</td> <td>40.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Part-time employment</td> <td>12.4%</td> <td>12.1%</td> <td>11.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Self employed</td> <td>6.7%</td> <td>6.3%</td> <td>8.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Unemployed</td> <td>4.1%</td> <td>3.8%</td> <td>3.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#9cc; color:navy;">Retired</td> <td>14.1%</td> <td>12.8%</td> <td>13.5% </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5">Source: Office for National Statistics<a href="#cite_note-2001economicactivity-80">[78]</a> </th></tr></tbody></table> The economy of Wakefield declined in the last quarter of the 20th century as the coal mines and traditional manufacturing industries closed, contributing to high rates of unemployment. In the <a href="/wiki/Index_of_Multiple_Deprivation" class="mw-redirect" title="Index of Multiple Deprivation">Index of Multiple Deprivation</a> 2015, 14.35% of the district's lower super-output areas were in the most deprived 10% of England.<a href="#cite_note-81">[79]</a> Employment grew by 12% between 1998 and 2003 as the economy recovered and enjoyed growth as the economic base of the district was diversified. Growth has been supported by inward investment from European and United Kingdom government funding which has impacted on the regeneration of the area. Manufacturing remains an important employment sector although the decline is projected to continue whilst distribution and the service industries are now among the main employers.<a href="#cite_note-82">[80]</a> At the 2001 census, there were 33,521 people in employment who were resident within Wakefield. Of these, 20.74% worked in the wholesale and retail trade, including repair of motor vehicles; 14.42% worked within manufacturing industry; 11% worked within the health and social work sector and 6.49% were employed in the transport, storage and communication industries.<a href="#cite_note-2001industrydata-83">[81]</a> Wakefield is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Leeds_City_Region_Partnership" class="mw-redirect" title="Leeds City Region Partnership">Leeds City Region Partnership</a>, a sub-regional economic development partnership covering an area of the historic county of Yorkshire.<a href="#cite_note-84">[82]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regeneration">Regeneration</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Regeneration">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trinity_Walk,_Wakefield_(10th_March_2013)_003.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Trinity_Walk%2C_Wakefield_%2810th_March_2013%29_003.JPG/220px-Trinity_Walk%2C_Wakefield_%2810th_March_2013%29_003.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Trinity_Walk%2C_Wakefield_%2810th_March_2013%29_003.JPG/330px-Trinity_Walk%2C_Wakefield_%2810th_March_2013%29_003.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Trinity_Walk%2C_Wakefield_%2810th_March_2013%29_003.JPG/440px-Trinity_Walk%2C_Wakefield_%2810th_March_2013%29_003.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2176" /></a><figcaption>Trinity Walk shopping centre</figcaption></figure> Regeneration projects in Wakefield included the <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Walk" title="Trinity Walk">Trinity Walk</a> retail development to the north east of the city centre, including a department store, a supermarket and shop units.<a href="#cite_note-Major_Development-85">[83]</a> Work began in autumn 2007 but was halted in 2009, restarted in 2010 and opened in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-Trinity_Walk-86">[84]</a> The central square at the Bull Ring has been redesigned with a water feature and the <a href="/wiki/Ridings_Shopping_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Ridings Shopping Centre">Ridings Shopping Centre</a> refurbished.<a href="#cite_note-Bull_Ring-87">[85]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Westgate_railway_station" title="Wakefield Westgate railway station">Wakefield Westgate Station</a> goods yard and land on Westgate and Balne Lane have been developed to create retail, residential and commercial space including new offices, a multi-storey carpark serving the station, and a hotel.<a href="#cite_note-Westgate-88">[86]</a> A new market hall opened in 2008, but closed in 2018.<a href="#cite_note-89">[87]</a> In 2023, conversion began of it into <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Exchange" title="Wakefield Exchange">Wakefield Exchange</a>, an events space.<a href="#cite_note-90">[88]</a> Developments by the river and canal, the "Wakefield Waterfront", include the refurbishment of the Grade II listed Navigation Warehouse and office, retail, restaurant and cafe units. The development includes the art gallery, <a href="/wiki/The_Hepworth_Wakefield" title="The Hepworth Wakefield">The Hepworth Wakefield</a> named in honour of local sculptor, <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Hepworth" title="Barbara Hepworth">Barbara Hepworth</a> which opened in May 2011. The gallery has ten internal spaces, exhibiting many examples of Hepworth's work. The gallery added about £10 million to the local economy by attracting 500,000 visitors in its first year.<a href="#cite_note-91">[89]</a> Flats and offices were built at Chantry Waters, on an island between the river and canal. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Landmarks">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chantry_Bridge.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Chantry_Bridge.JPG/220px-Chantry_Bridge.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Chantry_Bridge.JPG/330px-Chantry_Bridge.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Chantry_Bridge.JPG/440px-Chantry_Bridge.JPG 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Chantry Bridge over the <a href="/wiki/River_Calder,_West_Yorkshire" title="River Calder, West Yorkshire">River Calder</a></figcaption></figure> The most prominent landmark in Wakefield is <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Cathedral" title="Wakefield Cathedral">Wakefield Cathedral</a>, which at 247 feet (75 m) has the tallest spire in Yorkshire.<a href="#cite_note-92">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[91]</a> Other landmarks in the Civic Quarter on Wood Street include the Grade II*<a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_architecture" title="Neoclassical architecture">Neoclassical</a> Crown Court of 1810,<a href="#cite_note-94">[92]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Town_Hall" title="Wakefield Town Hall">Wakefield Town Hall</a> designed by T.E. Collcutt and opened in 1880,<a href="#cite_note-95">[93]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/County_Hall,_Wakefield" title="County Hall, Wakefield">County Hall</a> of 1898 built in a <a href="/wiki/Queen_Anne_Style_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Anne Style architecture">Queen Anne Style</a> which are Grade I listed.<a href="#cite_note-96">[94]</a> <a href="/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist%27s_Church,_Wakefield,_West_Yorkshire" title="St John the Baptist's Church, Wakefield, West Yorkshire">St John's Church</a> and Square, St John's North and South Parade are part of residential development dating from the Georgian period. The old Wakefield Bridge with its <a href="/wiki/Chantry_Chapel_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Wakefield" title="Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield">Chantry Chapel</a>, Sandal Castle, and Lawe Hill in Clarence Park are <a href="/wiki/Scheduled_monument" title="Scheduled monument">ancient monuments</a>.<a href="#cite_note-97">[95]</a> Another prominent structure is the 95-arch railway viaduct, constructed of 800,000,000 bricks in the 1860s on the Doncaster to Leeds railway line. At its northern end is a bridge with an 80-foot (24 m) span over Westgate and at its southern end a 163-foot (50 m) iron bridge crossing the River Calder.<a href="#cite_note-98">[96]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Ridings_Centre" title="The Ridings Centre">The Ridings Centre</a>, opened in 1983, was a UK first and served as a template for many shopping centres throughout the UK.<a href="#cite_note-99">[97]</a> <a href="/wiki/Clayton_Hospital" title="Clayton Hospital">Clayton Hospital</a>, a substantial <a href="/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture">Victorian</a> edifice completed in 1880, closed in 2012 and has since been demolished.<a href="#cite_note-100">[98]</a> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Transport">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Railway_Viaduct_-_geograph.org.uk_-_362217.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Railway_Viaduct_-_geograph.org.uk_-_362217.jpg/220px-Railway_Viaduct_-_geograph.org.uk_-_362217.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Railway_Viaduct_-_geograph.org.uk_-_362217.jpg/330px-Railway_Viaduct_-_geograph.org.uk_-_362217.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Railway_Viaduct_-_geograph.org.uk_-_362217.jpg/440px-Railway_Viaduct_-_geograph.org.uk_-_362217.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="421" /></a><figcaption>The brick-built 95-arch viaduct in Wakefield</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:23_Wakefield_Kirkgate_Railway_Station_(flash)_-wikipedia-.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/23_Wakefield_Kirkgate_Railway_Station_%28flash%29_-wikipedia-.jpg/220px-23_Wakefield_Kirkgate_Railway_Station_%28flash%29_-wikipedia-.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/23_Wakefield_Kirkgate_Railway_Station_%28flash%29_-wikipedia-.jpg/330px-23_Wakefield_Kirkgate_Railway_Station_%28flash%29_-wikipedia-.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/23_Wakefield_Kirkgate_Railway_Station_%28flash%29_-wikipedia-.jpg/440px-23_Wakefield_Kirkgate_Railway_Station_%28flash%29_-wikipedia-.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="726" /></a><figcaption>Wakefield Kirkgate railway station</figcaption></figure> Wakefield has good access to the motorway system, with the intersection of the <a href="/wiki/M1_motorway" title="M1 motorway">M1</a> and <a href="/wiki/M62_motorway" title="M62 motorway">M62</a> motorways, junctions 42/29, lying to the north west, whilst the M1 to the west is accessed at junctions 39, 40 and 41. The <a href="/wiki/A1(M)_motorway_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="A1(M) motorway (Great Britain)">A1(M)</a> is to the east of the district. Wakefield is crossed by the <a href="/wiki/A61_road" title="A61 road">A61</a>, <a href="/wiki/A638_road" title="A638 road">A638</a>, and <a href="/wiki/A642_road" title="A642 road">A642</a> roads and is the starting point of the <a href="/wiki/A636_road" title="A636 road">A636</a> and <a href="/wiki/A650_road" title="A650 road">A650</a> roads. The council is working with <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Metro" title="West Yorkshire Metro">West Yorkshire Metro</a>, the other four West Yorkshire district councils and transport operators to provide an integrated transport system for the district through the implementation of the West Yorkshire <a href="/wiki/Local_Transport_Plan" class="mw-redirect" title="Local Transport Plan">Local Transport Plan</a>.<a href="#cite_note-101">[99]</a> A network of local buses, coordinated by West Yorkshire Metro and departing from <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_bus_station" title="Wakefield bus station">Wakefield bus station</a> in the town centre, serves Wakefield and district. Buses are operated by <a href="/wiki/Arriva_Yorkshire" title="Arriva Yorkshire">Arriva Yorkshire</a>, Watersons Coaches, Poppletons, <a href="/wiki/Team_Pennine" title="Team Pennine">Team Pennine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach_Yorkshire" title="Stagecoach Yorkshire">Stagecoach Yorkshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Express_Coaches" title="National Express Coaches">National Express</a>.<a href="#cite_note-WBS-102">[100]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Westgate_railway_station" title="Wakefield Westgate railway station">Wakefield Westgate station</a> opened in 1867 on the <a href="/wiki/Doncaster_railway_station" title="Doncaster railway station">Doncaster</a> to Leeds line. It has connections to the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line" title="East Coast Main Line">East Coast Main Line</a>, trains to Leeds, Doncaster, and stations towards <a href="/wiki/London_King%27s_Cross_railway_station" title="London King's Cross railway station">London King's Cross</a>. <a href="/wiki/CrossCountry" title="CrossCountry">CrossCountry</a> trains go to <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_railway_station" title="Newcastle railway station">Newcastle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Waverley_railway_station" title="Edinburgh Waverley railway station">Edinburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham_New_Street_railway_station" title="Birmingham New Street railway station">Birmingham</a> and the <a href="/wiki/South_West_England" title="South West England">South West</a>. <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_Railway" title="East Midlands Railway">East Midlands Railway</a> also run a limited service via Sheffield, <a href="/wiki/Derby_railway_station" title="Derby railway station">Derby</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leicester_railway_station" title="Leicester railway station">Leicester</a> to <a href="/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station" title="St Pancras railway station">London St Pancras</a>. Wakefield Westgate is on the <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield Line">Wakefield Line</a> of the <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Metro" title="West Yorkshire Metro">West Yorkshire Metro</a> network.<a href="#cite_note-103">[101]</a> The line was <a href="/wiki/Rail_electrification" class="mw-redirect" title="Rail electrification">electrified</a> in 1989. Wakefield is served by inter-city express trains from both its railway stations. London can be reached in less than two hours. <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Kirkgate_railway_station" title="Wakefield Kirkgate railway station">Wakefield Kirkgate railway station</a> was opened by the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_and_Leeds_Railway" title="Manchester and Leeds Railway">Manchester and Leeds Railway</a> in 1840. Wakefield Kirkgate is unstaffed and operated by <a href="/wiki/Northern_(train_operating_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern (train operating company)">Northern</a> who operate trains to <a href="/wiki/Barnsley_Interchange" title="Barnsley Interchange">Barnsley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meadowhall_Interchange" title="Meadowhall Interchange">Meadowhall Interchange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheffield railway station">Sheffield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Normanton_railway_station" title="Normanton railway station">Normanton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Monkhill_railway_station" title="Pontefract Monkhill railway station">Pontefract</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knottingley_railway_station" title="Knottingley railway station">Knottingley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds_railway_station" title="Leeds railway station">Leeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Castleford_railway_station" title="Castleford railway station">Castleford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nottingham_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Nottingham railway station">Nottingham</a>.<a href="#cite_note-104">[102]</a> The station serves the <a href="/wiki/Hallam_Line" title="Hallam Line">Hallam Line</a>, <a href="/wiki/Huddersfield_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Huddersfield Line">Huddersfield Line</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pontefract_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontefract Line">Pontefract Line</a> of the MetroTrain network. <a href="/wiki/Grand_Central_(train_operating_company)" title="Grand Central (train operating company)">Grand Central</a> operating between <a href="/wiki/London_King%27s_Cross_railway_station" title="London King's Cross railway station">London King's Cross</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bradford_Interchange" title="Bradford Interchange">Bradford Interchange</a> stop at Kirkgate. In 2009 <a href="/wiki/CCTV" class="mw-redirect" title="CCTV">CCTV</a> was installed at the station, but it had acquired a reputation for being one of the country's worst stations.<a href="#cite_note-105">[103]</a> It has, however, undergone extensive renovation (2014–). The nearest airport is <a href="/wiki/Leeds_Bradford_Airport" title="Leeds Bradford Airport">Leeds Bradford Airport</a>, 19 miles (31 km) to the north of the city at <a href="/wiki/Yeadon,_West_Yorkshire" title="Yeadon, West Yorkshire">Yeadon</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Aire_and_Calder_Navigation" title="Aire and Calder Navigation">Aire and Calder Navigation</a> is 33 miles (53 km) from Leeds to <a href="/wiki/Goole" title="Goole">Goole</a>, and 7.5 miles (12.1 km) from Wakefield to Castleford, and was created by Act of Parliament in 1699. It was opened to Leeds in 1704 and to Wakefield in 1706, enabling craft carrying 100 tons to reach Wakefield from the Humber.<a href="#cite_note-Old_Wakefield-27">[25]</a> It is still used by a small amount of commercial traffic and leisure craft.<a href="#cite_note-ACN-106">[104]</a> The Calder and Hebble Navigation was created by Act of Parliament in 1758 with the intention of making the Calder navigable to <a href="/wiki/Sowerby_Bridge" title="Sowerby Bridge">Sowerby Bridge</a>. The route was originally surveyed by <a href="/wiki/John_Smeaton" title="John Smeaton">John Smeaton</a>, remains open and is used by leisure craft.<a href="#cite_note-CHN-107">[105]</a> The Barnsley Canal, a broad canal with 20 locks, opened in 1799 connecting Barnsley to the Aire and Calder Navigation at Wakefield and was abandoned in 1953.<a href="#cite_note-BC-108">[106]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Education">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Old_Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/The_Old_Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School.jpg/220px-The_Old_Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/The_Old_Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School.jpg/330px-The_Old_Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/The_Old_Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School.jpg/440px-The_Old_Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="449" /></a><figcaption>The original Queen Elizabeth Grammar School on Brook Street</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_in_Wakefield" title="List of schools in Wakefield">List of schools in Wakefield</a></div> Wakefield's oldest surviving school is <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School,_Wakefield" title="Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield">Queen Elizabeth Grammar School</a>, a boys-only school established in 1591 by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I" title="Elizabeth I">Queen Elizabeth I</a> by Royal Charter. The original building in Brook Street is now the <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_Gallery" title="Elizabethan Gallery">Elizabethan Gallery</a>. QEGS moved to Northgate in 1854.<a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_1066-1600-21">[19]</a> The school was administered by the Governors of Wakefield Charities who opened Wakefield Girls High School <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Girls%27_High_School" title="Wakefield Girls' High School">WGHS</a> on Wentworth Street in 1878.<a href="#cite_note-109">[107]</a> These two schools today are <a href="/wiki/Independent_school" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent school">independent schools</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_school_(England_and_Wales)" title="National school (England and Wales)">National schools</a> were opened by the Church of England including St Mary's in the 1840s and St John's in 1861.<a href="#cite_note-110">[108]</a> The original St Austin's Catholic School opened about 1838.<a href="#cite_note-111">[109]</a> A Methodist School was opened in Thornhill Street in 1846.<a href="#cite_note-112">[110]</a> Pinders Primary School, originally Eastmoor School is the only school opened as a result of the Education Act 1870 which remains open today.<a href="#cite_note-113">[111]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_College" title="Wakefield College">Wakefield College</a> has its origins in the School of Art and Craft of 1868<a href="#cite_note-114">[112]</a> and today is the major provider of <a href="/wiki/6th_form" class="mw-redirect" title="6th form">6th form</a> and <a href="/wiki/Further_education" title="Further education">further education</a> in the area, with around 3,000 full-time and 10,000 part-time students,<a href="#cite_note-115">[113]</a> and campuses in the city and surrounding towns. In 2007 Wakefield City Council and Wakefield College announced plans to establish a University Centre of Wakefield but a bid for funding failed in 2009.<a href="#cite_note-116">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-117">[115]</a> Other schools with sixth forms include: QEGS, Wakefield Girls High School, and Cathedral High School, which is now a <a href="/wiki/Performing_Arts_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Performing Arts College">Performing Arts College</a> for ages 11 to 18.<a href="#cite_note-118">[116]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Religion">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_-_Cathedral.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Wakefield_-_Cathedral.jpg/280px-Wakefield_-_Cathedral.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Wakefield_-_Cathedral.jpg/420px-Wakefield_-_Cathedral.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Wakefield_-_Cathedral.jpg/560px-Wakefield_-_Cathedral.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Cathedral" title="Wakefield Cathedral">Wakefield Cathedral</a></figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable floatright" style="margin-left: 1em;"> <caption>Religion in Wakefield 2001<a href="#cite_note-York2001-119">[117]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2001">UK Census 2001</a></th> <th>Wakefield</th> <th><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a></th> <th>England </th></tr> <tr> <td>Christian</td> <td>78.21%</td> <td>73.07%</td> <td>71.74% </td></tr> <tr> <td>No religion</td> <td>11.74%</td> <td>14.09%</td> <td>14.59% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Muslim</td> <td>1.14%</td> <td>3.81%</td> <td>3.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Buddhist</td> <td>0.10%</td> <td>0.14%</td> <td>0.28% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hindu</td> <td>0.20%</td> <td>0.32%</td> <td>1.11% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Jewish</td> <td>0.04%</td> <td>0.23%</td> <td>0.52% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sikh</td> <td>0.08%</td> <td>0.38%</td> <td>0.67% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Other religions</td> <td>0.18%</td> <td>0.19%</td> <td>0.29% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Religion not stated</td> <td>7.57%</td> <td>7.77%</td> <td>7.69% </td></tr></tbody></table> Wakefield's oldest church is All Saints, now <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Cathedral" title="Wakefield Cathedral">Wakefield Cathedral</a>, a 14th-century parish church built on the site of earlier Saxon and Norman churches, restored by Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Gilbert_Scott" title="George Gilbert Scott">George Gilbert Scott</a> in the 19th century, and raised to cathedral status in 1888. The first <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Wakefield_(diocese)" title="Bishop of Wakefield (diocese)">Bishop of Wakefield</a> was <a href="/wiki/Walsham_How" title="Walsham How">William Walsham How</a>. In 1356 the <a href="/wiki/Chantry_Chapel_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Wakefield" title="Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, Wakefield">Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin</a> on Wakefield bridge was built originally in wood, and later in stone. This chapel is one of four chantry chapels built around Wakefield and the oldest and most ornate of the four surviving in England.<a href="#cite_note-Historic_Wakefield_1066-1600-21">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-Bridge_Chapels-120">[118]</a> Wakefield is also known for the <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Mystery_Plays" title="Wakefield Mystery Plays">Wakefield Cycle</a>, a collection of 32 <a href="/wiki/Mystery_play" title="Mystery play">mystery plays</a>, dating from the 14th century, which were performed as part of the summertime religious festival of <a href="/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi" title="Feast of Corpus Christi">Corpus Christi</a> and revived in recent times.<a href="#cite_note-MysteryPlays-121">[119]</a> <a href="/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist%27s_Church,_Wakefield,_West_Yorkshire" title="St John the Baptist's Church, Wakefield, West Yorkshire">St John's Church</a> was built in 1795 in the <a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian</a> style. Three new Anglican <a href="/wiki/Commissioners%27_church" title="Commissioners' church">Commissioners' churches</a>, partly financed by the "Million Fund" were built as chapels of ease in the surrounding districts and were St Peter at Stanley in 1824, St Paul at Alverthorpe in 1825, and St James at Thornes in 1831.<a href="#cite_note-122">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-MillionAct-123">[121]</a> Holy Trinity in George Street was built in 1838–9.<a href="#cite_note-124">[122]</a> St Andrew's Church opened on Peterson Road in 1846 and St Mary's Church on Charles Street was consecrated in 1864. St Michael's was consecrated in 1861.<a href="#cite_note-125">[123]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Westgate_Unitarian_Chapel" title="Westgate Unitarian Chapel">Westgate Unitarian Chapel</a> dates from 1752. In the 19th century Wesleyan, Primitive and Independent Methodist chapels were opened and the Baptists opened a chapel in George Street in 1844.<a href="#cite_note-126">[124]</a><a href="#cite_note-Churchpics-127">[125]</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Swinden_Barber#Church_of_St_John_the_Divine,_Calder_Grove,_1892" title="William Swinden Barber">St John the Divine</a> was built at Calder Grove in 1892.<a href="#cite_note-LT_27_May_1893-128">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[127]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">diocese</a> of Wakefield covered parishes mainly in West Yorkshire, parts of South Yorkshire and five parishes in North Yorkshire.<a href="#cite_note-130">[128]</a> It was dissolved on Easter Sunday 2014.<a href="#cite_note-131">[129]</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Platten" title="Stephen Platten">Stephen Platten</a> was the 12th and last <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Wakefield_(diocese)" title="Bishop of Wakefield (diocese)">Bishop of Wakefield</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Diocese_of_Leeds" title="Anglican Diocese of Leeds">Diocese of Leeds</a><a href="#cite_note-132">[130]</a> now covers Wakefield. Wakefield has two Catholic parishes – in the north <a href="/wiki/Martin_de_Porres" title="Martin de Porres">St Martin de Porres</a> incorporates the churches of <a href="/wiki/St_Austin%27s_Church,_Wakefield" title="St Austin's Church, Wakefield">St Austin's</a>, Wentworth Terrace, opened in 1828, and English Martyrs, opened in 1932, on Dewsbury Road, Lupset,<a href="#cite_note-St_Austins-133">[131]</a> and in the south, St Peter and St Paul's off Standbridge Lane which has a modern church built in 1991. Wakefield is in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Leeds" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds">Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds</a>.<a href="#cite_note-134">[132]</a> Agbrigg Muslim Association have a Zakaria Masjid Mosque in Wakefield.<a href="#cite_note-135">[133]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Culture">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Wakefield" title="Theatre Royal, Wakefield">Theatre Royal Wakefield</a> on Westgate, designed by architect <a href="/wiki/Frank_Matcham" title="Frank Matcham">Frank Matcham</a>, opened in 1894 as the Opera House, and currently presents a programme of entertainment including musicals, drama, live music, stand-up comedy and dance.<a href="#cite_note-theatreroyalwakefield-136">[134]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Theatre_Royal,_Wakefield_(17216645475).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Theatre_Royal%2C_Wakefield_%2817216645475%29.jpg/220px-Theatre_Royal%2C_Wakefield_%2817216645475%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Theatre_Royal%2C_Wakefield_%2817216645475%29.jpg/330px-Theatre_Royal%2C_Wakefield_%2817216645475%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Theatre_Royal%2C_Wakefield_%2817216645475%29.jpg/440px-Theatre_Royal%2C_Wakefield_%2817216645475%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2890" data-file-height="2744" /></a><figcaption>Theatre Royal</figcaption></figure> Wakefield's two central libraries moved into the £31 million <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_One" title="Wakefield One">Wakefield One</a> in October 2012. The new library was officially opened by singer <a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Cocker" title="Jarvis Cocker">Jarvis Cocker</a> on 10 November 2012.<a href="#cite_note-137">[135]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Museum" title="Wakefield Museum">Wakefield Museum</a> moved from the former Mechanics' Institute on Wood Street to Wakefield One at the same time. The museum was officially opened by <a href="/wiki/David_Attenborough" title="David Attenborough">Sir David Attenborough</a> on 9 March 2013.<a href="#cite_note-138">[136]</a> Balne Lane library once managed a regional collection of more than 500,000 items of music and 90,000 copies of plays for Yorkshire Libraries & Information (YLI).<a href="#cite_note-139">[137]</a> The Yorkshire Music and Drama Library at Balne Lane closed on 31 March 2012 when the music section moved to Huddersfield and the drama section to Leeds.<a href="#cite_note-140">[138]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Hepworth_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1507085.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Hepworth_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1507085.jpg/220px-The_Hepworth_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1507085.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Hepworth_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1507085.jpg/330px-The_Hepworth_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1507085.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Hepworth_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1507085.jpg/440px-The_Hepworth_Wakefield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1507085.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The Hepworth Wakefield and the River Calder</figcaption></figure> In May 2011 <a href="/wiki/The_Hepworth_Wakefield" title="The Hepworth Wakefield">The Hepworth Wakefield</a> gallery opened on the south bank of the River Calder near Wakefield Bridge, displaying work by local artists Barbara Hepworth and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Moore" title="Henry Moore">Henry Moore</a> and other British and international artists. The gallery is thought to be the largest purpose-built gallery to open in the United Kingdom since 1968.<a href="#cite_note-Gallery-141">[139]</a> Wakefield's three adjoining parks have a history dating back to 1893 when Clarence Park opened on land near Lawe Hill. The adjacent Holmefield Estate was acquired in 1919, followed by Thornes House in 1924, becoming Holmefield Park and <a href="/wiki/Thornes_Park" title="Thornes Park">Thornes Park</a> respectively. The three parks form Wakefield Park to the south west of the city.<a href="#cite_note-chatparks-142">[140]</a> <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Park_Festival" title="Clarence Park Festival">Clarence Park Music Festival</a> is held annually in Clarence Park, promoting local bands.<a href="#cite_note-CPMF-143">[141]</a> Wakefield's newspaper, the <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Express" title="Wakefield Express">Wakefield Express</a>,<a href="#cite_note-WEx-144">[142]</a> was founded in 1852. Another newspaper, the Wakefield Guardian was established in 2007, but has ceased publishing.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Local news and television programmes is 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. Wakefield's local radio stations are <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Leeds" title="BBC Radio Leeds">BBC Radio Leeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heart_Yorkshire" title="Heart Yorkshire">Heart Yorkshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Capital_Yorkshire" title="Capital Yorkshire">Capital Yorkshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ridings_FM" title="Ridings FM">Ridings FM</a>, was founded in 1999,<a href="#cite_note-rfm-145">[143]</a> and rebranded in September 2020 as <a href="/wiki/Greatest_Hits_Radio_West_Yorkshire" title="Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire">Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire</a>. Wakefield is known as the capital of the <a href="/wiki/Rhubarb_Triangle" title="Rhubarb Triangle">Rhubarb Triangle</a>, an area notable for growing early forced <a href="/wiki/Rhubarb" title="Rhubarb">rhubarb</a>. In July 2005 a sculpture was erected to celebrate this facet of Wakefield, and there is an annual 'Wakefield Festival of Food, Drink and Rhubarb" which takes place over the last weekend in February.<a href="#cite_note-146">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-147">[145]</a><a href="#cite_note-Rhubarb-148">[146]</a> The West Riding Registry of Deeds on Newstead Road is the headquarters of the West Yorkshire Archive Service, housing records from the former West Riding and West Yorkshire counties, and is the record office for the Wakefield Metropolitan District.<a href="#cite_note-WYJS-149">[147]</a> In 1913 Albert Winstanley opened the Picture House cinema in Westgate. Shortly after opening it was renamed the Playhouse, and by 1972 it was part of the Classic cinema chain. It is now a nightclub.<a href="#cite_note-150">[148]</a> In 1935 <a href="/wiki/Associated_British_Cinemas" class="mw-redirect" title="Associated British Cinemas">Associated British Cinemas</a> (ABC) opened the Regal Cinema in Kirkgate. The <a href="/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco">Art Deco</a> building was renamed the ABC in 1962 and became a <a href="/wiki/The_Cannon_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="The Cannon Group">Cannon</a> in 1986. <a href="/wiki/Cineworld" title="Cineworld">Cineworld</a>'s first purpose-built multiplex in Britain opened in Wakefield in December 1996. The ABC closed in 1997 and has remained derelict, but there have been successive proposals to redevelop or demolish it.<a href="#cite_note-151">[149]</a> The ABC cinema was finally and fully demolished in August 2023 The British rock band <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a> played at the <a href="/wiki/ABC_Cinema,_Wakefield" title="ABC Cinema, Wakefield">ABC Cinema Wakefield</a> on 7 February 1963 as part of the Helen Shapiro Winter Tour. The Cinema may still have been named the Regal at the time. This was their only performance in Wakefield and took place just a few days before the band recorded their first album <a href="/wiki/Please_Please_Me" title="Please Please Me">Please Please Me</a>.<a href="#cite_note-152">[150]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_and_television_locations">Film and television locations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Film and television locations">edit</a>]</div> The 1963 film <a href="/wiki/This_Sporting_Life" title="This Sporting Life">This Sporting Life</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Richard_Harris" title="Richard Harris">Richard Harris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rachel_Roberts_(actress)" title="Rachel Roberts (actress)">Rachel Roberts</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Hartnell" title="William Hartnell">William Hartnell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Lowe" title="Arthur Lowe">Arthur Lowe</a> was partially filmed in Wakefield, specifically at <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Trinity" title="Wakefield Trinity">Wakefield Trinity</a> Rugby Ground, Belle Vue, the area around the top of Westgate and the demolished "Locarno Night Club" – Southgate, now the Cathedral entrance to <a href="/wiki/The_Ridings_Centre" title="The Ridings Centre">Ridings Shopping Centre</a>. The film's screenplay was by Wakefield born writer <a href="/wiki/David_Storey" title="David Storey">David Storey</a>.<a href="#cite_note-153">[151]</a> The 1996 film <a href="/wiki/Brassed_Off" title="Brassed Off">Brassed Off</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Ewan_McGregor" title="Ewan McGregor">Ewan McGregor</a>, was partly filmed at <a href="/wiki/National_Coal_Mining_Museum_for_England" title="National Coal Mining Museum for England">The National Coal Mining Museum</a> in Wakefield.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The 2018 television mini series <a href="/wiki/The_ABC_Murders_(TV_series)" title="The ABC Murders (TV series)">The ABC Murders</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/John_Malkovich" title="John Malkovich">John Malkovich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eamon_Farren" title="Eamon Farren">Eamon Farren</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Shaeffer" title="Michael Shaeffer">Michael Shaeffer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Grint" title="Rupert Grint">Rupert Grint</a> was partly filmed at <a href="/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist%27s_Church,_Wakefield,_West_Yorkshire" title="St John the Baptist's Church, Wakefield, West Yorkshire">St Johns Baptist's Church</a> and St John's Square.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Sport">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wakefield_Trinity_Wildcats_hospitality_suites_(geograph_5814488).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wakefield_Trinity_Wildcats_hospitality_suites_%28geograph_5814488%29.jpg/220px-Wakefield_Trinity_Wildcats_hospitality_suites_%28geograph_5814488%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wakefield_Trinity_Wildcats_hospitality_suites_%28geograph_5814488%29.jpg/330px-Wakefield_Trinity_Wildcats_hospitality_suites_%28geograph_5814488%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wakefield_Trinity_Wildcats_hospitality_suites_%28geograph_5814488%29.jpg/440px-Wakefield_Trinity_Wildcats_hospitality_suites_%28geograph_5814488%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption>Belle Vue Stadium</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Trinity" title="Wakefield Trinity">Wakefield Trinity</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">Rugby League</a> club currently playing in the Championship following relegation from the Super League in 2023. The club, founded in 1873, was one of the initial founders of the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Football_League" title="Rugby Football League">Northern Union</a> after the split from the <a href="/wiki/Rugby_Football_Union" title="Rugby Football Union">Rugby Football Union</a> in 1895. The club plays at <a href="/wiki/Belle_Vue_(Wakefield)" title="Belle Vue (Wakefield)">Belle Vue stadium</a>.<a href="#cite_note-WTrinity-154">[152]</a> Several local teams play in different leagues of the <a href="/wiki/British_Amateur_Rugby_League_Association" title="British Amateur Rugby League Association">British Amateur Rugby League Association</a>, BARLA. They include Wakefield City, Westgate Wolves, Crigglestone All Blacks, Kettlethorpe and Eastmoor Dragons.<a href="#cite_note-BARLA-155">[153]</a> Rugby Union Football is played at <a href="/wiki/Sandal_RUFC" title="Sandal RUFC">Sandal RUFC</a><a href="#cite_note-sandalrufc-156">[154]</a> and was played by <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_RFC" title="Wakefield RFC">Wakefield RFC</a> at <a href="/wiki/College_Grove_(sports_ground)" title="College Grove (sports ground)">College Grove</a> from 1901 to 2004 when the club ceased to play. Wakefield briefly had a football team in the city itself when <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_F.C." title="Wakefield F.C.">Emley F.C.</a> moved to play at Belle Vue, the ground of Wakefield Trinity, hoping to progress further up the football pyramid. However, fortunes soon declined with supporters abandoning the club and they moved out of Belle Vue, first to College Grove and then briefly to share with <a href="/wiki/Ossett_Town_A.F.C." title="Ossett Town A.F.C.">Ossett Town</a>, ultimately, Wakefield FC folded in June 2014<a href="#cite_note-157">[155]</a> with crowds in the low double figures by then. <a href="/wiki/Emley_A.F.C." title="Emley A.F.C.">AFC Emley</a> was founded to restore the club's original links with the village of Emley.<a href="#cite_note-158">[156]</a> the fans who followed the old club soon went back to following the new (continuation of the old club) in Emley who have gone from strength to strength.<a href="#cite_note-159">[157]</a> In 2019 a new club <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_A.F.C." title="Wakefield A.F.C.">Wakefield A.F.C.</a> was formed by a consortium including former professional player <a href="/wiki/Chris_Turner_(footballer,_born_1958)" title="Chris Turner (footballer, born 1958)">Chris Turner</a> and played in the <a href="/wiki/Sheffield_%26_Hallamshire_County_Senior_Football_League" title="Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior Football League">Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior Football League</a>, in 2021 the club was bought by VO2 capital. Playing at Barnsley and <a href="/wiki/Featherstone_Rovers" title="Featherstone Rovers">Featherstone</a>, the club had not played in the City which bears their name until moving to share the rugby ground with <a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Trinity" title="Wakefield Trinity">Wakefield Trinity</a> in 2023,<a href="#cite_note-160">[158]</a> however, this arrangement only lasted 1 season before Wakefield moved back out of the city and back to <a href="/wiki/Featherstone_Rovers" title="Featherstone Rovers">Featherstone</a><a href="#cite_note-161">[159]</a> leaving the city of Wakefield without a senior football club yet again. Wakefield Hockey Club and Slazenger Hockey Club (based in <a href="/wiki/Horbury" title="Horbury">Horbury</a>) are <a href="/wiki/Field_hockey" title="Field hockey">field hockey</a> clubs that compete in the <a href="/wiki/Men%27s_England_Hockey_League" title="Men's England Hockey League">Men's England Hockey League</a>, the <a href="/wiki/North_Hockey_Association" title="North Hockey Association">North Hockey League</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Hockey_Association" title="Yorkshire Hockey Association">Yorkshire & North East Hockey League</a>.<a href="#cite_note-162">[160]</a><a href="#cite_note-163">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-164">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-165">[163]</a> Wakefield Sports Club at College Grove also has the Yorkshire Regional Hockey Academy, Wakefield Bowls Club and Wakefield Squash Club on the same site.<a href="#cite_note-WSC-166">[164]</a> The Wakefield Archers meet at QEGS in Wakefield or at Slazengers Sports Club, Horbury and has archers shooting Olympic re-curve bows, compound bows and longbows.<a href="#cite_note-Archery-167">[165]</a> Thornes Park Athletics Stadium is home to Wakefield Harriers A.C. Members <a href="/wiki/Martyn_Bernard" title="Martyn Bernard">Martyn Bernard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emily_Freeman" title="Emily Freeman">Emily Freeman</a> competed in the Beijing Olympics.<a href="#cite_note-WAC-168">[166]</a> Local teams Newton Hill and Wakefield Thornes are members of the Leeds-West Riding Cricket League.<a href="#cite_note-lwrcl-169">[167]</a> There is a 100-acre (0.40 km2) watersports lake at <a href="/wiki/Pugneys_Country_Park" title="Pugneys Country Park">Pugneys Country Park</a> catering for non-powered watersports such as canoeing, sailing and windsurfing.<a href="#cite_note-Pugneys-170">[168]</a> Golf clubs include the municipal course at Lupset and the private Wakefield Golf Club at Sandal.<a href="#cite_note-Golf-171">[169]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_services">Public services</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Public services">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HM_Prison_Wakefield_1916.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/HM_Prison_Wakefield_1916.jpg/220px-HM_Prison_Wakefield_1916.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/HM_Prison_Wakefield_1916.jpg/330px-HM_Prison_Wakefield_1916.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/HM_Prison_Wakefield_1916.jpg/440px-HM_Prison_Wakefield_1916.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="525" /></a><figcaption>Wakefield Prison (1916)</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/HM_Prison_Wakefield" title="HM Prison Wakefield">Wakefield Prison</a>, originally built as a house of correction in 1594, is a maximum security prison.<a href="#cite_note-172">[170]</a> Wakefield is policed by the West Yorkshire Police force and is within the DA, Wakefield division, which covers the whole district.<a href="#cite_note-WYP-173">[171]</a> Wakefield is also the location of the West Yorkshire Police Headquarters. The <a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">statutory emergency fire and rescue service</a> is provided by the <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>, from Wakefield fire station.<a href="#cite_note-174">[172]</a> Hospital services are provided by the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and community health services, including <a href="/wiki/General_practitioner" title="General practitioner">GPs</a>, district and community nurses, dentists and pharmacists, are coordinated by Wakefield District <a href="/wiki/NHS_primary_care_trust" title="NHS primary care trust">Primary Care Trust</a>.<a href="#cite_note-175">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-176">[174]</a> <a href="/wiki/Waste_management" title="Waste management">Waste management</a> is co-ordinated by the <a href="/wiki/Local_government" title="Local government">local authority</a>. Wakefield's <a href="/wiki/Distribution_network_operator" title="Distribution network operator">distribution network operator</a> for electricity is <a href="/wiki/Northern_Powergrid" title="Northern Powergrid">CE Electric</a>. <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Water" title="Yorkshire Water">Yorkshire Water</a> manages Wakefield's <a href="/wiki/Drinking_water" title="Drinking water">drinking</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wastewater" title="Wastewater">wastewater</a>.<a href="#cite_note-177">[175]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Notable people">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Wakefield" class="mw-redirect" title="List of people from Wakefield">List of people from Wakefield</a></div> <ul><li>Novelist <a href="/wiki/George_Gissing" title="George Gissing">George Gissing</a> was born in Wakefield in 1857; his childhood home in Thompson's Yard is maintained by The Gissing Trust.<a href="#cite_note-178">[176]</a></li> <li>Sculptor <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Hepworth" title="Barbara Hepworth">Barbara Hepworth</a> was born in Wakefield in 1903.<a href="#cite_note-BH-179">[177]</a> The art gallery The Hepworth Wakefield is named after her which features her work, alongside that of other local artists such as <a href="/wiki/Henry_Moore" title="Henry Moore">Henry Moore</a>.<a href="#cite_note-180">[178]</a></li> <li>Dame <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Williamson" title="Marjorie Williamson">Marjorie Williamson</a> was born in Wakefield in 1913. She was an academic, educator, physicist and university administrator.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Storey" title="David Storey">David Storey</a>, born in Wakefield in 1933, was a <a href="/wiki/Novelist" title="Novelist">novelist</a> and playwright, whose 1960 <a href="/wiki/This_Sporting_Life" title="This Sporting Life">This Sporting Life</a>, was made into a 1963 film which was shot largely on location in the city.<a href="#cite_note-DS-181">[179]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Treisman" title="Anne Treisman">Anne Treisman</a> (née Taylor, 1935–2018), a <a href="/wiki/Psychologist" title="Psychologist">psychologist</a> who specialised in <a href="/wiki/Cognitive_psychology" title="Cognitive psychology">cognitive psychology</a>, was born in Wakefield.<a href="#cite_note-obit_nyt-182">[180]</a></li> <li>Former Archbishop of York, <a href="/wiki/David_Hope,_Baron_Hope_of_Thornes" title="David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes">David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes</a>, was born in 1940 in Thornes.<a href="#cite_note-DH-183">[181]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_McDonald" title="Jane McDonald">Jane McDonald</a>, singer, was born in Wakefield in 1963.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrat</a> politician <a href="/wiki/John_Leech_(politician)" title="John Leech (politician)">John Leech</a> was born in Wakefield in 1971.<a href="#cite_note-184">[182]</a> He was Member of Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Withington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Manchester Withington (UK Parliament constituency)">Manchester Withington</a> from 2005 to 2015.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twin_cities">Twin cities</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Twin cities">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of twin towns and sister cities in the United Kingdom">List of twin towns and sister cities in the United Kingdom</a></div> Wakefield is <a href="/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Twin towns and sister cities">twinned</a> with:<a href="#cite_note-Wakefield_twinning-185">[183]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 33em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfeld" title="Alfeld">Alfeld (Leine)</a>, Germany (since 1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castres" title="Castres">Castres</a>, France<a href="#cite_note-Archant_twinning_2-186">[184]</a> (since 1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castrop-Rauxel" title="Castrop-Rauxel">Castrop-Rauxel</a>, Germany (since 1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girona" title="Girona">Girona</a>, Spain (since 1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9nin-Beaumont" title="Hénin-Beaumont">Hénin-Beaumont</a>, France<a href="#cite_note-Archant_twinning_2-186">[184]</a> (since 1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herne,_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Herne, Germany">Herne</a>, Germany (since 1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konin" title="Konin">Konin</a>, Poland (since 1996)</li></ul></div> Wakefield was previously twinned with <a href="/wiki/Xiangyang" title="Xiangyang">Xiangyang</a>, China (2016 - 2020) and <a href="/wiki/Nanning" title="Nanning">Nanning</a>, China (2019 - 2020). Both relations were ended due to human rights concerns relating to the <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China" title="Persecution of Uyghurs in China">treatment of Uyghur Muslims</a>.<a href="#cite_note-187">[185]</a><a href="#cite_note-188">[186]</a> Wakefield was also previously twinned with <a href="/wiki/Belgorod" title="Belgorod">Belgorod</a>, Russia (1991 - 2022), but this agreement was ended in response to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-189">[187]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Freedom_of_the_City">Freedom of the City</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Freedom of the City">edit</a>]</div> The following people and military units have received the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_the_City" title="Freedom of the City">Freedom of the City</a> of Wakefield. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. (March 2020)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Individuals">Individuals</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Individuals">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Field_marshal_(United_Kingdom)" title="Field marshal (United Kingdom)">Field Marshal</a> <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery" title="Bernard Montgomery">Lord Montgomery of Alamein</a>: 4 November 1947.<a href="#cite_note-190">[188]</a></li> <li>James Benjamin Sykes: 18 May 1864.<a href="#cite_note-191">[189]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military_units">Military units</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Military units">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Own_Yorkshire_Light_Infantry" title="King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry">King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry</a>: 1945.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Yorkshire_Regiment" title="Royal Yorkshire Regiment">Yorkshire Regiment</a>: 13 March 2010.<a href="#cite_note-192">[190]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Rifles" title="The Rifles">The Rifles</a>: 11 September 2010.<a href="#cite_note-193">[191]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Wakefield" title="Listed buildings in Wakefield">Listed buildings in Wakefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Jolly_Pinder_of_Wakefield" title="The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield">The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefield_Trinity_L.F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Wakefield Trinity L.F.C.">Wakefield Trinity L.F.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Ridings_Centre" title="The Ridings Centre">The Ridings Centre</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wakefield&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> The area that is the subject of this article does not have legal city status of itself, but is widely regarded as a city since it is the main and nominate settlement in the City of Wakefield local government area[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </li> </ol></div></div> Notes <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> Wakefield's thorpes are: Alverthorpe, Chapelthorpe, Gawthorpe, Hollingthorpe, Kettlethorpe, Kirkthorpe, Milnthorpe, Ouchthorpe, Painthorpe, Snapethorpe, Woodthorpe, Wrenthorpe. 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Wakefield Express. 29 September 2020. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230716140014/https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/business/wakefield-twin-partnerships-with-nanning-city-and-xiangyang-to-be-axed-over-china-human-rights-concerns-2986655">Archived</a> from the original on 16 July 2023. 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Yorkshire Live. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230109184057/https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/wakefield-cut-ties-twinned-russian-23240230">Archived</a> from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 9 January 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Yorkshire+Live&rft.atitle=Wakefield+to+cut+all+ties+with+its+twinned+Russian+city+Belgorod&rft.date=2022-02-28&rft.aulast=Johnson&rft.aufirst=Kristian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.examinerlive.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal-news%2Fwakefield-cut-ties-twinned-russian-23240230&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWakefield" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-190"><a href="#cite_ref-190">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200523114831/http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/field-marshall-montgomery-receives-freedom-wakefield">"Field Marshall Montgomery Receives the Freedom of Wakefield"</a>. Yorkshire Film Archive. 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Yorkshire Film Archive. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200808035630/https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/wakefield-history/essays-on-aspects-of-wakefield-history/walk-about-lupset/">Archived</a> from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=6.+Wakefield+Fever+Hospital&rft.pub=Yorkshire+Film+Archive&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk%2Fwakefield-history%2Fessays-on-aspects-of-wakefield-history%2Fwalk-about-lupset%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWakefield" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-192"><a href="#cite_ref-192">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/the_yorkshire_regiment_given_the_freedom_of_the_city_1_975111">"The Yorkshire Regiment given the Freedom of the City"</a>. Wakefield Express. 15 March 2010. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120319040553/http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/the_yorkshire_regiment_given_the_freedom_of_the_city_1_975111">Archived</a> from the original on 19 March 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Wakefield+Express&rft.atitle=The+Yorkshire+Regiment+given+the+Freedom+of+the+City&rft.date=2010-03-15&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wakefieldexpress.co.uk%2Flifestyle%2Fthe_yorkshire_regiment_given_the_freedom_of_the_city_1_975111&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWakefield" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-193"><a href="#cite_ref-193">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/march_marks_regiment_s_freedom_of_city_honour_1_2596082">"March marks regiment's Freedom of City honour"</a>. Yorkshire Post. 12 September 2010. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121012174211/http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/march_marks_regiment_s_freedom_of_city_honour_1_2596082">Archived</a> from the original on 12 October 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Yorkshire+Post&rft.atitle=March+marks+regiment%27s+Freedom+of+City+honour&rft.date=2010-09-12&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorkshirepost.co.uk%2Fnews%2Faround-yorkshire%2Flocal-stories%2Fmarch_marks_regiment_s_freedom_of_city_honour_1_2596082&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWakefield" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div> Bibliography <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 40em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBeckett2005" class="citation book cs1">Beckett, J. 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Manchester University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Conurbations+of+Great+Britain&rft.pub=Manchester+University+Press&rft.date=1966&rft.aulast=Freeman&rft.aufirst=T.+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXjS8AAAAIAAJ%26q%3DWakefield%2520County%2520Borough%26pg%3DPA173&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWakefield" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGalloway1971" class="citation book cs1">Galloway, Robert L. (1971). Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade Vol. 1,1898. 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