Accreditation Unaccredited
Address_line_1 Castle Chain
Admin_hierarchy /England/Yorkshire and The Humber (English Region)/West Yorkshire (English CA)/Wakefield (English District or Borough)
DOMUS_Subject_Matter archaeology
DOMUS_identifier 1504
Deprivation_index 1
Deprivation_index_crime 2
Deprivation_index_education 1
Deprivation_index_employment 1
Deprivation_index_health 1
Deprivation_index_housing 3
Deprivation_index_income 2
Deprivation_index_services 6
Geodemographic_group Services Manufacturing and Mining Legacy
Geodemographic_group_code 6ar
Geodemographic_group_name_long 6ar-Services Manufacturing and Mining Legacy
Geodemographic_subgroup Manufacturing Legacy
Geodemographic_subgroup_code 6a1r
Geodemographic_subgroup_name_long 6a1r-Manufacturing Legacy
Geodemographic_supergroup Services and Industrial Legacy
Geodemographic_supergroup_code 6r
Geodemographic_supergroup_name_long 6r-Services and Industrial Legacy
Governance Government-Local_Authority
Identifier_used_in_source_database YH000119
Latitude 53.694519
Longitude -1.30416
Name_of_museum Pontefract Castle
Notes_internal New visitor centre showing objects (2017). But may not have been a museum (by our definition) throughout its history.
Postcode WF8 1QH
Primary_provenance_of_data domus
Region_country Yorkshire and The Humber
Size medium
Size_prov domus
Subject_Matter War_and_conflict-Castles_and_forts
Town_or_City Pontefract
Visitor_Numbers_Data 3:45995:1996:domus
Year_closed 9999:9999
Year_closed_source https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g580423-d2549535-Reviews-Pontefract_Castle-Pontefract_West_Yorkshire_England.html
Year_opened 1892:1892
Year_opened_source dfoundation
media 0
project_id mm.domus.YH119