Battle of Towton
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Latitude and longitude of Pontefract
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Pontefract is a historic market town in 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 has a population of 28,250. Pontefract's motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to English Civil War Royalist sympathies.
Population: 28,620
Latitude: 53° 41' 27.85" N
Longitude: -1° 18' 45.68" W
Articles of interest in Pontefract
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