Pontefract Castle

📍 West Yorkshire, England

4 ★★★★ 1,670 reviews

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Pontefract Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of famous sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War.

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