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On his way south to London, King James rode from Grimston Park to view Pontefract Castle on 19 April 1603 and stayed the night at the Bear Inn at Doncaster. [10] The castle was included in English jointure property of his wife, Anne of Denmark. [11] Royalists controlled Pontefract Castle at the start of the English Civil War.
The estate has a parade of shops situated around Chequerfield Circle; which includes a convenience store, fish and chip shop and several takeaways. There is one pub; the Chequerfield Hotel also situated on the Circle. Pontefract Sports and Social Club, formerly known as the Labour Club is situated on the edge of the estate.
Pontefract Castle began as a wooden motte and bailey castle before 1086 and was later rebuilt in stone. The de Lacys lived there for more than two centuries [12] and were holders of the castle and the Honour of Pontefract from 1067 [13] until the death of Alice de Lacy in 1348. [14] King Richard II was murdered at the castle in 1400.
The Pontefract Arms The End of the Affair (1951), Graham Greene: Believed to be the pub depicted in the novel's opening pages, [33] where Maurice Bendrix and Henry Miles meet and the toilet graffiti wishes customers, ‘a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea.’ (p3). Picture is from 2009 when it was known as The Windmill on the Common.
Reconstruction of Pontefract Castle. Almost the only place which seemed for a time to hold out against the insurgents was Pontefract Castle, of which Darcy held the command. Thither fled Archbishop Lee of York, who put himself under Darcy's protection with some of the neighbouring gentry. But Darcy, pretending that his provisions had run short ...
Ruins of Pontefract Castle, where Robert Waterton was Constable. Like his uncle Sir Hugh Waterton, he entered the service of Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV.In 1391 he was appointed Master Forester at Pontefract Castle, and in that year accompanied Bolingbroke to the siege of Vilnius. [5]
Edmund was the son and heir of John de Lacy, jure uxoris Earl of Lincoln (c. 1192–1240) 8th Baron of Halton, 8th Hereditary Constable of Chester, and feudal baron of Pontefract. [1] His father was one of the 25 barons who forced John, King of England to sign Magna Carta in 1215.
Pontefract is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. In the town and surrounding area are 66 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, eight are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. Most of the ...