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Pontefract
Pontefract
is a historic market town in
West Yorkshire
, England, near the
A1
(or Great North Road) and the
M62 motorway
.
Historically
part of the
West Riding of Yorkshire
, it is one of the five towns in the
metropolitan borough
of the
City of Wakefield
and has a population of 28,250. Pontefract's motto is
Post mortem patris pro filio
,
Latin
for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to
English Civil War
Royalist sympathies.
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