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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.
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]
Green baronets of Sampford (1660) Green baronets of Marass (1786) Green baronets of Milnrow (1805): see Sir Charles Green, 1st Baronet (1749–1831) Green baronets of Wakefield (1886) Green baronets of Belsize Park (1901)
The riddle goes: “There is a green glass door, and some things can go through it and some things cannot.” The person posing the riddle then offers a series of pairs of items, only one item ...
The Green baronetcy, of Wakefield in the County of York, and of Ken Hill in the parish of Snettisham in the County of Norfolk, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 5 March 1886 for Edward Green, [1] Conservative Member of Parliament for Wakefield.
Sir Edward Green, 1st Baronet (4 March 1831 – 30 March 1923) was an English ironmaster and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1892. Green was the son of Edward Green (engineer) , a Yorkshire ironmaster who founded E. Green & Son based in Wakefield and patented "Green's Economiser ".
Lime Green Icicle Tower is a 2011 glass and steel sculpture by American artist Dale Chihuly. Housed in the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, Massachusetts, it has been on display in the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard since the 2011 exhibit "Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass". The sculpture proved so popular during the exhibit ...
Wakefield's newspaper, the Wakefield Express, [142] was founded in 1852. Another newspaper, the Wakefield Guardian was established in 2007, but has ceased publishing. [citation needed] Local news and television programmes is provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire. Television signals are received from the Emley Moor TV transmitter.