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Wakefield is a city in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Leeds, and by the River Calder. Its population was 79,885 in 2001. Today it forms part of a metropolitan borough named the City of Wakefield. The town was a centre for cloth dealing and had its own Piece Hall. The area was once dominated by coal-mining - a key driver for the industrial revolution. By the time of the 1984 Miners' Strike, all the pits in the city had already been closed, but there were 18 pits in the rest of the district and demonstrations in ...

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Its name is often said to derive from "Wacca's field" -- the field belonging to Wacca. However, it is more likely to have evolved from Old English wacu, meaning "a watch or wake", and feld, an open field in which a wake was held (Reaney, 1964, p.161). In the Domesday Book in 1086, it was listed as Wachefeld (Mills, 1998, p. 361). It was dubbed the Merrie City in the Middle Ages. In 1460, during the Wars of the Roses, the Duke of York was defeated near this city (then a town) in the Battle of Wakefield. The ruins of Sandal Castle can still be visited. They are set in pleasant parkland near Pugneys Country Par ...

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