Pontefract
Americannoun
noun
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Using his access to the Atlas database, Wai tracked her down to her flat in Pontefract where she was living with her young son.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
Duncan Atkinson KC said the alleged operation "involved persons connected with the Hong Kong authorities acting as if Pontefract were a town in China rather than Yorkshire".
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
Apprentice bricklayer Alfie Conway, 19, from Pontefract, was jailed for two years and three months at Sheffield Crown Court.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2024
If the closure goes ahead, only Wakefield, Pontefract and Castleford would be left with in-person banking services, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2023
He had already left the sieges of Pontefract and Scarborough to Colonel Rossiter, and hurried into Cumberland to deal with the English Royalists under Sir Marmaduke Langdale.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
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