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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]
Wakefield College has its origins in the School of Art and Craft of 1868 [112] and today is the major provider of 6th form and further education in the area, with around 3,000 full-time and 10,000 part-time students, [113] and campuses in the city and surrounding towns. In 2007 Wakefield City Council and Wakefield College announced plans to ...
This is a list of people from the City of Wakefield, a local government district in West Yorkshire, England. This list includes notable people from Wakefield, and the wider district, and so includes people from Normanton, Pontefract, Featherstone, Castleford and Knottingley and other areas. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:
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.
Wakefield Council, also known as the City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, is the local authority of the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield has had a council since 1848, which has been reformed on several occasions. Since 1974 it has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local ...
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.
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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]