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The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield in northern England, on 30 December 1460.It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses.The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to the captive King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster and his Queen Margaret of Anjou on one side, and the army of Richard, Duke of York, the rival claimant to the throne, on the other.
Sandal, situated on the south side of the River Calder on the road from Wakefield to Barnsley, covers 1,700 acres (688 ha). [10] It is 2 mi (3.2 km) from Wakefield, 8 mi (13 km) from Barnsley, 9 mi (14 km) from Pontefract, 15 mi (24 km) from Leeds, 19 mi (31 km) from Bradford, 25 mi (40 km) from Sheffield, and 30 mi (48 km) from York.
In 1347, Edward III granted Sandal to his fifth son Edmund of Langley who was six years old at the time. His elder brother John of Gaunt held Pontefract and Knaresborough Castles, Edmund was granted Wark Castle near Coldstream in the Scottish Borders, and in 1377 Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire which was to become his home, and for the next 75 years the family seems to have spent ...
Agbrigg is served by Sandal & Agbrigg station which is on the Wakefield Line and the station is between Wakefield Westgate and Fitzwilliam.This station was originally named Sandal and closed to passengers on 4 November 1957, but reopened by the West Yorkshire Metro on 30 November 1987 with its current name.
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The WF postcode area, also known as the Wakefield postcode area, [2] is a group of 17 postcode districts in north-east England, which are subdivisions of eleven post towns. These cover much of southern and eastern West Yorkshire (including Wakefield , Pontefract , Dewsbury , Batley , Castleford , Heckmondwike , Knottingley , Liversedge ...
The card was decorated with the three green arrows that make up the recycling symbol. Westerveld saw irony in the "save the towel" movement, because hotels waste resources in many different ways ...
Wakefield, [2] also known as the City of Wakefield, is a local government district with city status and a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of Wakefield at the 2011 Census was 325,837. [3]