Wentbridge

Wentbridge House Hotel near Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, is an historical house of significance. It dates from 1700 and is built in the Georgian style. The house was occupied by many interesting people and was owned at one period by the Sayle family who lived in this area for several centuries. The property is now a hotel and provides accommodation, dining and function facilities

Wentbridge Viaduct is a road bridge in West Yorkshire, England. The viaduct carries four lanes of the A1 road over the small valley of the River Went at an elevated level, replacing the previous bridge which was down on the valley floor and to the west in the village of Wentbridge. The viaduct, which is made from pre-stressed concrete, was opened in 1961, and is grade II listed.

Darrington is a small village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Pontefract and 25 miles (40 km) from the city of York. The village is split in two by the busy A1 trunk road which runs from London to Scotland. The 2011 census population was 1,403.

Pontefract North is an electoral ward of the City of Wakefield district, used for elections to Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.

Pontefract South is an electoral ward of the City of Wakefield district, used for elections to Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.

Thorpe Audlin is a hamlet and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 660. Until 1974 it was part of Hemsworth Rural District. Thorpe Audlin is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) from Pontefract.

Stapleton Park is a country estate in Stapleton, a village near Selby in North Yorkshire, in England. The manor of Stapleton was recorded in the Domesday Book and passed through numerous owners before Edward Lascelles purchased it in 1762. He commissioned John Carr to design a new house, and Richard Woods to lay out a park and gardens. In 1782, Capability Brown was commissioned to undertake further design work in the park, followed in 1783 and 1784 by Thomas White; it is unknown how much influence either had on the landscape. The house was partly dismantled in 1921. In 1937, the West Riding Mental Hospital Board purchased the estate, with the intention of converting the house into housing for patients, but finding it unsuitable, it instead demolished the house. It sold the estate in 1958, and much of the estate was converted into farmland, with some areas of woodland retained. The former coach house and stables, built around the same time as the house, survives. The building is grade II* listed. It is constructed of magnesian limestone on a plinth, with a hipped stone slate roof. It forms an almost square plan with four ranges around a courtyard. The main north range has five bays, the middle three bays projecting, with two storeys and a pediment, and the outer bays have one storey. In the centre is a round-arched coach entrance with a moulded surround. On the outer bays are stable doors with fanlights and voussoir arches, and the windows are sashes with voussoir arches. There is a continuous impost band, and a moulded cornice. On the roof is an ornamental cupola, with a clock, an arcaded top, and a domed roof with a dated weathervane. The other ranges have a single storey, the side ranges have seven bays, and the south range, which is open, has three bays.

Wrangbrook Junction near Upton in West Yorkshire was a location where two lines branched off the Hull and Barnsley Railway main line from Hull Cannon Street to Cudworth. The first junction led to Denaby and Conisbrough on the South Yorkshire Junction Railway, and after some four chains (80 m) further the Hull & South Yorkshire Extension Railway to Wath diverged. The line between Hull and Cudworth had opened on 20 July 1885, the branch to Denaby on 1 September 1894 and the one to Wath on 31 March 1902.Originally three signal boxes controlled the junctions: "Wrangbrook North" on the south side of the main line by the Denaby branch; "Wrangbrook South" on the west side of the Denaby branch and "Wrangbrook West" on the west side of the Wath branch. In 1934 South and West boxes were closed and control passed to North box which was renamed "Wrangbrook Junction". The line between Wrangbrook Junction and Little Weighton was closed on 6 April 1959. The section from Moorhouse to Wrangbrook Junction followed on 30 September 1963), and the lines between Wrangbrook Junction and Monckton and Sprotborough both closed on 7 August 1967.

Upton Colliery was a coal mine near to the village of Upton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The site was 8.5 miles (13.7 km) north west of Doncaster and 10 miles (16 km) north east of Barnsley. Coal was transhipped from the colliery by the former Hull and Barnsley Railway line. The colliery had a short life of only 40 years. Geological faulting and a serious explosion in 1964 led to its closure.

Upton is a village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 3,541 in the 2001 census.It is situated south of Badsworth and north of North Elmsall and is part of the SESKU (South Elmsall, South Kirkby, Upton) area. The village is also in the WF9 postal area (Pontefract) and very close to the South Yorkshire boundary.

Barnsdale, or Barnsdale Forest, is an area of South and West Yorkshire, England. The area falls within the modern-day districts of Doncaster and Wakefield. Barnsdale was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Barnsdale lies in the immediate vicinity north and north-west of Doncaster, and which was formerly forested and a place of royal hunts, and also renowned as a haunt of the outlaw Robin Hood in early ballads.

Stapleton is a village in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. The population taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Womersley. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) south-east from the towns of Pontefract and Knottingley. Stapleton Park was the subject of a well-known painting of the Victorian era by John Atkinson Grimshaw. Stapleton is home to the Stapleton Colony of the Brotherhood Church.