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Dist:0.4km north<br/>The A645 from Pontefract to Wakefield.
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Dist:0.5km north<br/>A645 Pontefract Road passing Ravenskowle Farm and Monksroyd Cottage.
©Darren Haddock
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©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.6km north<br/>The A645 road out of Pontefract towards Wakefield just before the Kings Croft Hotel.
©Gerald England
Dist:0.6km north<br/>A field of poppies in the grounds of Pontefract Crematorium. In the far background is the TV mast at Emley Moor.
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©Gordon Kneale Brooke
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©Gordon Kneale Brooke
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Gateway to a house on the site of the former barracks of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
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©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.6km north<br/>This field was the Butts when Pontefract Barracks was an operational military establishment.
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Photograph taken from the northern end of the street, looking south south west.
©Bill Henderson
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©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.7km north<br/>One of the few remaining original buildings which were part of the Pontefract Barracks, the home of the KOYLI. The barracks closed in the 1960s and the site is now largely a housing estate. This building at the main Barracks entrance, once housed the Guard Room and Armoury.
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.7km north<br/>Formerly the HQ of the K.O.Y.L.I. and site of the Regimental Museum, now occupied by the Territorial Army.
©Bill Henderson
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©Betty Longbottom

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