Area Guide For Pontefract

Pontefract is a notable market town in West Yorkshire, Britain, close to the A1 (or Extraordinary North Street) and the M62 motorway. Verifiably a piece of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the five towns in the metropolitan ward of the City of Wakefield and has a populace of 28,250. Pontefract's maxim is After death patris genius filio, Latin for "After the demise of the father, help the child", a reference to English Common War Royalist sympathies. Toward the end of the eleventh century, the cutting edge township of Pontefract comprised of two unique and separate regions known as Tanshelf and Kirkby. The eleventh century student of history, Orderic Vitalis, recorded that, in 1069, William the Champion ventured out crosswise over Yorkshire to put down an uprising which had sacked York, yet that, upon his trip to the city, he found that the intersection of the Stream Aire at what is advanced Pontefract had been barricaded by a gathering of nearby Somewhat English Scandinavian extremists, who had broken the scaffold and held the inverse bank in force. Such an intersection point would have been essential in the town's initial days, giving access in the middle of Pontefract and different settlements to the north and east, for example, York. Antiquarians accept that, more likely than not, it is this verifiable occasion which gives the township of Pontefract its present day name. The name "Pontefract" starts from the Latin for "broken extension", shaped of the components pons ('span') and fractus ('broken'). Pontefract was not recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book, yet it was noted as Pontefracto in 1090, four years after the Domesday survey.