Pontefract

[ pon-tuh-frakt; locally also puhm-frit, pom- ]

noun

1. a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.

Pontefract

/ ˈpɒntɪˌfrækt /

noun

1. an industrial town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire: castle (1069), in which Richard II was imprisoned and murdered (1400). Pop: 28 250 (2001)

Example Sentences

It was George Dunhill, a pharmacist in the Yorkshire town of Pontefract, who first thought to add a little sugar to the medicinal licorice, and this is how people started eating it as candy.

From Eater

A clue was obtained, which led to the belief that the incendiary had passed through Pontefract on the road to Wakefield.

From Project Gutenberg

Lancaster was taken prisoner, and conveyed to his own castle at Pontefract, where he was beheaded.

From Project Gutenberg

No one has yet succeeded in this quest, and the absence of any river at Pontefract makes the search peculiarly hopeless.

From Project Gutenberg

Going to the west as far as Pontefract, we come to the actual borders of the coal-mine and factory-bestrewn country.

From Project Gutenberg

It is barely possible that our modern historians may have been misled by Shakspeare, who makes Pontefract the scene of his death.

From Project Gutenberg