Next along the line from Cross gates is Garforth, a medium-sized town mentioned in the Domesday Book as Gereford and Gereforde (the name...

Cross Gates is a suburb of Leeds, but unlike many it isn’t an ancient village. Instead, it seems to have largely been a cross roads...

Where to begin with Leeds? Located near the site of a Roman ford across the River Aire (the name Leeds derives from a Brythonic word,...

Woodlesford is located about six miles from Leeds city centre. It has existed since at least the twelfth century, and was originally...

Outwood is a former pit village that remained tiny until the nineteen seventies, when urban sprawl caused by the building of new houses...

From Castleford, our next stop is at Normanton, a small town that feels rather more like a large village. In keeping with the other towns...

Glasshoughton is just to the south of Castleford, of which it is effectively a suburb. Before that, it was a separate village called...

Castleford is the third town in a row on our tour of the City of Wakefield that is far more significance historically than it has today....

Knottingley was once – like Pontefract – of far greater importance nationally than it is today. It has been inhabited since at least 1128...

Our next stop is at Pontefract, a small town that was historically of considerably greater significance than it is now. Today, it is a...

Featherstone is a town located between Wakefield and Pontefract, a pair of more famous neighbours both of which tourists are far more...

Streethouse is a small former mining village surrounded by farmland some distance east of Wakefield. It is wholly unremarkable and not...

South Elmsall is a small town much like South Kirkby and like its neighbour it was in existence at the time of the Domesday Book. Like so...

Below Fitzwilliam, the Wakefield Line splits into two, with one branch continuing to Thurnscoe and the other to Adwick le Street, both of...

A short distance down the line from Sandal & Agbrigg, lies the small village of Fitzwilliam, close to the town of Hemsworth. It isn’t a...

The first stop down the Wakefield Line is at Sandal & Agbrigg, a station serving adjacent settlements of which one is more prominent than...

Wakefield became a city in 1888, a status it acquired by virtue of having a cathedral. Nevertheless, it still feels very much like a...

The village of Darton is located on the banks of the River Dearne, and sits on the border between South and West Yorkshire that was...