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Pontefract

UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈpɒntɪˌfrækt/

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(pon′tə frakt′; locally also pum′frit, pom′-)

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Pon•te•fract (pon′tə frakt′; locally also pum′frit, pom′-),USA pronunciation n.

Place Namesa city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle. 31,335.

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Pontefract /ˈpɒntɪˌfrækt/ n

an industrial town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire: castle (1069), in which Richard II was imprisoned and murdered (1400). Pop: 28 250 (2001)

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