Pontefract's a market town in West Yorkshire, England, near the A1 (or Great North Road), the M62 motorway, and Castleford. It's one of the five towns in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield and has a population of approximately 35,000. Pontefract's motto's Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to English Civil War Royalist sympathies. History Local tradition asserts that Pontefract's name originates in the Latin Pontu… (More on Pontefract)