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Pontefract

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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An ancient market-town of Yorkshire, 13 m. SE. of Leeds; has a castle in which Richard II. died, and which suffered four sieges in the Civil War, a market hall, grammar school, and large market-gardens, where liquorice for the manufacture of Pomfret cakes is grown.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pontefract'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/pontefract.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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