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Part 2 - City of Wakefield

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The City of Wakefield occupies the south-eastern corner of what is currently referred to as West Yorkshire, bordering South Yorkshire to the south, Kirkless to the west, the City of Leeds to the north, and the Selby District of the present-day North Yorkshire to the east. These are – of course – all relatively modern divisions. The metropolitan borough includes Wakefield itself plus a handful of small towns and villages, with fifteen railway stations currently in use, although we shall only be doing thirteen walks, since Wakefield has two stations and Pontefract three.



Like South Yorkshire, the City of Wakefield has its fair share of former mining settlements turned commuter towns, as we shall see. It also has plenty of older history, with a pair of ruined castles with links to the War of the Roses and the English Civil War, and a town built on the site of a Roman Fort. There are plenty of historic churches, plus a cathedral in Wakefield, and plenty of historic churches. And the Aire and Calder Navigation runs across the top half of the district, as it wends its way from Leeds to Goole, passing through several of the places we shall explore. These include Wakefield, where we shall begin our peregrinations around this area of Yorkshire…

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