Pontefract (gbr)

Pontefract

Pontefract ranks 5,186th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Eureka, California, Otley, and Fyzabad. Memorable people born in Pontefract include Toby Kebbell, Helen Baxendale, and Paul Green. Memorable people who died in Pontefract include Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster. Pontefract has been the birth place of many actors and soccer players and the death place of many politicians. Pontefract is located in United Kingdom.

Pontefract is a historic market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wakefield district and had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census. Pontefract's motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to the town's Royalist sympathies in the English Civil War. Small villages and settlements in the immediate area include Stapleton. Read more on Wikipedia