City of Wakefield

Map showing Wakefield

The City of Wakefield is in West Yorkshire, England. As well as Wakefield there are five other medium-sized towns - Normanton, Pontefract, Featherstone, Castleford and Knottingley - and some smaller towns in the City area. Most people who live in those towns will tell other people that they live in those towns, instead of telling them that they live in Wakefield. The City of Wakefield has a population of about 320,000 people.

There is a mulberry tree in the exercise yard of the Wakefield Prison. It is believed that the prisoners made up the song "Here we go round the mulberry bush" as they walked around and around the tree.^[1]^[2]

City Of Wakefield Media

Cornmarket, Pontefract (21st June 2020) 002.jpg

Cornmarket, Pontefract, one of Wakefield's five towns
Castleford Civic Centre (24th April 2021) 014.jpg

Castleford Civic Centre
Pontefract-park-2 (27598251205).jpg

Pontefract Park lake at sunset. Tweaked in Color EFEX Pro 4
The ruins of Sandal Castle1.JPG

The ruins of Sandal Castle

References

↑ "The story of Wakefield Prison & the origin of a nursery rhyme". wakefield.gov.uk. 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
↑ "Wakefield". Brewer's Britain and Ireland. 2005. Retrieved 12 July 2012.

This short article about the United Kingdom can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.

[1] "The story of Wakefield Prison & the origin of a nursery rhyme". wakefield.gov.uk. 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012.

[2] "Wakefield". Brewer's Britain and Ireland. 2005. Retrieved 12 July 2012.

[1]

[2]