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A network of local buses, coordinated by West Yorkshire Metro and departing from Wakefield bus station in the town centre, serves Wakefield and district. Buses are operated by Arriva Yorkshire, Watersons Coaches, Poppletons, Team Pennine, Stagecoach Yorkshire and National Express. [100]
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]
Trinity Walk is 500,000 sq ft partially enclosed shopping centre with over 55 stores and 1000 car parking spaces, with access from Wakefield’s inner city ring road (A61) and the main bus station. The centre contains major stores, including an 8,500 m 2 Sainsbury's and retailers Next, New Look, and Pandora.
Wakefield Old Town Hall, also known as No. 5 Crown Court, is a historic building in the city centre of Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, in England.After operating as a town hall from 1861 to 1880, it served as an organ factory and then as commercial offices, before being adapted for residential use.
The building was commissioned to replace the Old Town Hall in Crown Court which had been completed in 1800. [2] After deciding that the old town hall was of insufficient status to compete with Leeds Town Hall and Bradford City Hall, civic leaders chose to procure a new town hall: [3] the site they selected was a vacant area between the mechanics institute and the old Crown Court.
During the Mediaeval period, Kirkgate was at the centre of one of three quarters of the town. A gatehouse was constructed across the street, by the location of the present William Street. The part of the street near the town became built up, with houses on burgage plots. The Six Chimneys, a large timber-framed house, survived until 1941, when ...
Westgate was first recorded in 1275, when it was the main route south-west out of Wakefield, along the Calder Valley. The street was at the centre of one of three quarters of the town, and the part of the street nearest the town centre was lined with houses on burgage plots. A gatehouse was constructed across the street, by the location of the ...
St John's Square, Wakefield City Centre Church of England II* 1895 Serves the areas to the north of Wakefield City Centre Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin: Wakefield Bridge, Wakefield City Centre Church of England I: c. 1350 Forms part of the structure of Wakefield Bridge St Mary Magdalene's Church Outwood WF1 2DT Church of England 1858 [4]