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Pontefract

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Pontefract , town (1991 pop. 28,621), Wakefield metropolitan district, N England. It is an industrial city; furniture, iron products, and textiles are made. Pomfret cakes are licorice lozenges made there. West of Pontefract is a racecourse. Situated on the edge of coal fields, Pontefract grew around a castle built in the 11th cent. on the site of a Saxon fort. It was the scene of the death of Richard II, was taken in the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536, and was besieged four times in the civil wars.

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Pontefract

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Pontefract, England/UK Pontefracto, Pontfreit ‘Broken Bridge’ from the Latin pons ‘bridge’ and fractus ‘broken’. It is unusual for a name to be derived directly from the Latin. The local Anglo‐Norman pronunciation, however, was Pomfret or Pumfrit. The town gives its name to liquorice Pomfret cakes.

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Pontefract

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Pontefract Wakefd. Pontefracto 1090. ‘Broken bridge’. Latin pons + fractus.

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