Business Services in Pontefract

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Accountants near Pontefract

Townends
Yorkshire Accountants Townends Accountants provide trusted accountancy and tax services in Goole, Pontefract, Selby & York. Lots of resources available online.

Stephens
Accountants covering Wakefield, Castleford & Pontefract, west Yorkshire

HBH
Website of Pontefract based HBH Chartered Accountants, accountancy, tax and audit experts, committed to helping you grow your business with a guarantee of professionalism and excellent service.

Wall Art

John Mitchell - Photo4Me
Wall art suitable for interior design and office receptions, available online and shipped to Pontefract. Printed to order on canvas, acrylic and other surfaces with 30 day guarantee.

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About Pontefract

Pontefract is a historic market town in the Wakefield District of 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 had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census. Pontefract's motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to the English Civil War Royalist sympathies.

At the end of the 11th century, the modern township of Pontefract consisted of two distinct and separate localities known as Tanshelf and Kirkby. The 11th-century historian, Orderic Vitalis, recorded that, in 1069, William the Conqueror travelled across Yorkshire to put down an uprising which had sacked York, but that, upon his journey to the city, he discovered that the crossing of the River Aire at what is modern-day Pontefract had been blockaded by a group of local Anglo-Scandinavian insurgents, who had broken the bridge and held the opposite bank in force. Such a crossing point would have been important in the town's early days, providing access between Pontefract and other settlements to the north and east, such as York. Historians believe that, in all probability, it is this historical event which gives the township of Pontefract its modern name. The name "Pontefract" originates from the Latin for "broken bridge", formed of the elements pons ('bridge') and fractus ('broken'). Pontefract was not recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book, but it was noted as Pontefracto in 1090, four years after the Domesday survey.

The above introduction to Pontefract uses material from the Wikipedia article 'Pontefract' and is used under licence.