Pontefract

Before it was known as Pontefract the Normans called it Pomfret, so it's likely that the name Pontefract derives somehow from Pomfret.

Neatorama 2009

Note 127: Item no. 3 in Pontefract articles regarding Mary printed in N. Key and T. Bucholz, Sources and Debates in English History 1485-1714 [Oxford, 2004], p. 63.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

The two were jailed last year for a string of offences against four boys, aged between eight and 14, at their home in Pontefract, West Yorks.

Archive 2007-09-01 Newmania 2007

The two were jailed last year for a string of offences against four boys, aged between eight and 14, at their home in Pontefract, West Yorks.

Sense and Sensibility Newmania 2007

The two were jailed last year for a string of offences against four boys, aged between eight and 14, at their home in Pontefract, West Yorks.

Archive 2007-09-02 Newmania 2007

The name Pontefract has suggested such an obvious derivation that, from the early topographers up to the present time, efforts have been made to discover the broken bridge giving rise to the new name, which replaced the Saxon Kyrkebi.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

Indeed, you can arrive at "Pontefract" if you start at "broken bridge" in latin.

Neatorama 2009

Mrs. Balls stands for the new seat of Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford.

Home is where the heart is, Home Secretary 2009

The arrangements that Mr. and Mrs. Ed Balls (respectively now the MPs for Normanton and Pontefract & Castleford) have whilst both collecting huge sums of money in allowances from the House of Commons are notorious.

Home is where the heart is, Home Secretary 2009

The arrangements that Mr. and Mrs. Ed Balls (respectively now the MPs for Normanton and Pontefract & Castleford) have whilst both collecting huge sums of money in allowances from the House of Commons are notorious.

Archive 2009-02-08 2009