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Pontefract

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Pontefract, West Yorkshire | Town Centre Walk 2020

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Trip to the historical city of Pontefract

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Pontefract town center

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Pontefract Town Hall Virtual Tour

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Pontefract Market Town Hermitage & Oratory Video

Pontefract is a historic market town in West Yorkshire, England, near the A1 and the M62 motorway. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the five towns in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield and has a population of 28,250, increasing to 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 English Civil War Royalist sympathies.