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The original name for these small tablets of liquorice is a "Pomfret" cake, after the old Norman name for Pontefract. However, that name has fallen into disuse and they are now almost invariably labelled "Pontefract cakes". The term "cake" has a long history. The word itself is of Germanic origin, from the Germanic "kakâ" (cook). [1] [2]
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Pontefract Museum is a local museum in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The collections cover archaeology , archives , decorative and applied art , fine art , photographs and social history .
Honour of Pontefract, a medieval English feudal barony which has existed since 1068 in present-day West Yorkshire; Pontefract cake, a type of small, roughly circular black sweet; Pontefract Castle, a castle ruin in Pontefract, England; Mansfield-et-Pontefract, a municipality in Quebec; Pontefract (UK Parliament constituency)
Pontefract is a historic market town in the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. It lies to the east of Wakefield and south of Castleford . Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire , it is one of the towns in the City of Wakefield district and had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census.
The Pontefract election conclusively proved that secret voting reduced riotous behaviour. Hugh Childers was re-elected on 15 August 1872 following his appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Pontefract museum holds the original ballot box, sealed in wax with a Pontefract cake liquorice stamp. [1]
Pontefract (or Pomfret) Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of famous sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War .
Pontefract Market Hall is a market hall in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was completed in 1860. It was completed in 1860. Pontefract market takes place both in the hall and on the Market Place on which the hall is situated.