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City of Wakefield
City in West Yorkshire, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the local government district. For the settlement, see Wakefield. For other cities called Wakefield, see Wakefield (disambiguation).
Wakefield,[2] also known as the City of Wakefield, is a local government district with city status and a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of Wakefield at the 2011 Census was 325,837.[3]
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The district includes the Five Towns of Castleford, Featherstone, Knottingley, Normanton and Pontefract.[4] Other towns include Hemsworth, Horbury, Ossett, South Elmsall and South Kirkby (also forms the civil parish of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe). The city and district are governed by Wakefield Council from the County Hall.[5] In 2010, Wakefield was named as the UK's third most musical city by PRS for Music.[6]