Pontefract Park

A view across the property's south facing garden from an area of decking.

Larger style family home with fabulous south-facing garden hits the market

The Pontefract 10K takes place this Sunday.

Everything you need to know ahead of the 2025 Pontefract 10k

Castleford Academies team supporting the race last year.

Run the Pontefract 10K for The Prince of Wales Hospice

The banks around the lake at Pontefract Park have been eroding for several years.

Major repair works to Pontefract Park’s damaged lake banks to start next week

The banks around the lake at Pontefract Park have been eroding for several years.

Repair works for crumbling lake banks at Pontefract Park given the go-ahead

The banks around the lake at Pontefract Park have been eroding for several years. The public is currently banned from accessing parts of the perimeter as is has become a safety hazard.

Repair works set for crumbling lake banks at Pontefract Park

DavidEvo cafe has opened in Kirkgate Station.

See inside elegant new indie Wakefield coffee shop opened by two best friends

Armed Forces Day 2024.

Armed Forces Day: Pontefract Park's day of events in pictures

Armed Forces Day celebrates the outstanding contribution that our Armed Forces make to the country. Photo: Scott Merrylees

Pontefract Park to host Armed Forces Day 2024

British soldiers of the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) during the Normandy Landings, June 1944.

City to host service of commemoration on 80th anniversary of D-Day

The ever-popular Pontefract 10k will return to Pontefract Park on Sunday, May 19 and you can take part in the race while raising vital funds for the local Hospice.

Pontefract 10k returns for 2024 – here’s how to sign up

The funding will pay for resurfacing of the “inadequate” road surface near to the town’s racecourse entrance.

£50,000 of road safety improvements for Pontefract Park approved

The funding has been earmarked to pay for re-surfacing of the “inadequate” road near to the town’s racecourse entrance.

£50K of road and traffic safety improvements set for Pontefract Park

Yvette Cooper MP says 2023 was a year for local heroes.

A New Year message from Yvette Cooper MP

The public is currently banned from accessing parts of the perimeter as is has become a safety hazard.

Repairs to crumbling lake banks at Pontefract Park delayed

Parking fine could be introduced at Pontefract Park to deter students from nearby Pontefract New College

Fines could be introduced at Pontefract Park to stop students parking
Wakefield Council is considering introducing parking fines at Pontefract Park.
Tony Gardner

Residents can have their say on how future money is spent at parks and green spaces across the district.

Residents are asked to share their views on Wakefield's parks

Pontefract Park has been recognised and celebrated as one of the region’s best parks and green spaces with annual announcement from Keep Britain Tidy

Pontefract Park selected to fly Green Flag Award

Councillor Michelle Collins cuts the ribbon at the courts at Haw Hill Park.

Work complete on Haw Hill Park’s new play and sport area

Funtopia is set to return to Thornes Park and Pontefract Park this summer.

Here is how to win tickets to Funtopia's children festival this summer

Armed Forces Day 2023

Here are 46 photos as the Wakefield district celebrates Armed Forces Day 2023

Former Royal Engineer Godfrey Brooks, now 103, will be at Pontefract's Armed Forces Day.

Armed Forces Day: 103-year-old Pontefract war veteran to join celebrations

Local Armed Forces groups, emergency services personnel, veterans’ groups and community groups will be holding stalls and demonstrations at the event, alongside a plentiful host of food and drink stalls and a craft market.

Spitfire fly-past and parachute display planned for Armed Forces Day

The new children's play area at Queen's Park in Castleford has opened.

New children's play area opens in Castleford

Pontefract Park's new kids playground has opened.

New kids playground at Pontefract Park now open

An artist's impression of what the new play area is expected to look like when complete.

Revamp to begin on playground in a Castleford park

An artist's impression on what the new play area in Pontefract Park could look like.

Work set to begin to transform play area at Pontefract Park
Work is set to begin in early January on a new £450,000 play area for Pontefract Park.
Shawna Healey

The community event was planned for Saturday.

Organisers cancel Five Towns Community Day this weekend

An artist's impression of what the park will look like.

Thornes Park playground upgrade will now feature inclusive swing

SUMMER FUN: A Grand Day Out is a free event in August.

Denise Jeffery: Free summer holiday activities to be enjoyed

The lake is one of Pontefract Park's most outstanding features.

'Win-win' for Pontefract Park as angling club set to take over care of lake

Haw Hill Park in Normanton will be among the beneficiaries of the cash.

Parks and play areas to benefit from more cash

All smiles as Wakefield Harriers runner Abbey Brooke crosses the finishing line to win the North of England U20 Cross Country title.

Wakefield Harriers runner Abbey Brooke races to North of England cross country t...

Thousands of runners from across the north descended on Pontefract Park for the Start Fitness Northern Cross Country Championships on Saturday.

Picture Gallery: Pontefract Park hosts Northern Cross Country Championships

Despite the freezing weather plenty of people turned up to the Let's Fish event in Knottingley.

Pontefract youngsters get free fishing lessons

The park's lake is expected to get some investment next week.

Cash to repair eroding banks at Pontefract Park expected to be approved

Pontefract in Bloom, one of the old rowing boats in Pontefract Park turned into a planter.

Pontefract is in full bloom this summer

Some of the 130 models that were brought along to an earlier event photo credit: Shaun Garrity

Your chance to learn to fly a model plane

An annual event celebrating the contributions of the Armed Forces in Wakefield and the Five Towns has been called off for a second year. Pictured is a parade at the event in 2013.

Wakefield's Armed Forces Day celebrations cancelled for a second year after lock...

The Cabinet, which usually meets in public around 10 times a year, is made up of a group of senior councillors who take on the biggest decisions on behalf of the local authority.

New faces promoted and health job merged in Wakefield Council Cabinet reshuffle

Girls football coaching to be launched in Pontefract.

Aspire for girls football in Pontefract

Aspire@ThePark

Girls only football sessions to be held at Pontefract Park

The sun is out, spring is here - there's no better way to spend a sunny day than a trip to your local park!

IN PICTURES: Fun in the sun at Pontefract Park

Pontefract Racecourse

Pontefract Park to close this spring for 'behind closed doors' horse racing

Pontefract Park will be temporarily closing to the public on three separate days this spring to enable Pontefract Racecourse to hold 'behind closed door' race meetings.

Pontefract Park to close on race days to support ‘behind closed door’ racing

Replica of Pontefract Castle in Pontefract Park

Photos of Pontefract and Castleford in days gone by

An artist's impression of how the completed facility will look.

Aspire@ThePark: New £21m Pontefract leisure centre may still open before summer

The group has big plans for the lake.

Ambitious plans to revive Pontefract Park lake as fishing destination

Rex Jarvis saves the dog from the lake in Pontefract Park (photo and video: Paula Town).

Runner smashes through frozen lake to save drowning dog in West Yorkshire

After losing her father, Stewart, last New Year's Eve to prostate cancer, Caroline Wright signed up for a sponsored run organised by Prostate Cancer UK

Pontefract woman to run virtual marathon for Prostate Cancer charity in memory o...

Firefighters lept to the rescue of a one-year-old bulldog after falling through ice in Pontefract Park lake

Bulldog Rocky's life saved by firefighters after crashing through ice in Pontefr...

The venue was hit by a huge fire last February.

Thornes Park Athletics Stadium in Wakefield due to partially re-open in February...

Councillor Jacquie Speight with ward members at Aspire@ThePark, which is on track to open next year. Photo: Wakefield Council

Work underway at new £21m Five Towns Leisure Centre

Pontefract Racecourse will be closed on Thursday

Pontefract Park to close for horse racing

A new group of roller sport enthusiasts are calling for the public to get behind plans for a skatepark and bike tracks in Pontefract Park

Plan for Pontefract Park would see skatepark, bike trails, walks and picnic area

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