Wakefield
About Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 109,766 in the 2021 census, up from 99,251 in the 2011 census. The city is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, which had a 2024 population of 367,666, the 27th most populous district in England. It is part of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area and the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
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This moonraking festival is a huge deal. There's a big parade through the streets, there's a moon arriving by barge — although no one turned up in 2013 because all the moonrakers had defected to the rhubarb festival at Wakefield.
from No Such Thing as The Long Kiss Good Brie, 2022-04-15 at 00:04:49 · read transcript
Other times Wakefield came up
They were, and although some of them were given a small amount of land to live on, the church, and in one case, there's a place called Yule Grave in the Midlands, and they had one who was entitled to a hat, as well as the small wage, and then one in Wakefield, who also got hats, shoes, and hoses as part of the job. They turned sleepfield into Wakefield, that was what they had on their badge.
463: No Such Thing As An Especially Attractive Barge, 2023-01-27 · listen
Although some of them were given a small amount of land to live on near the church. Nice. In one case, there's a place called Yulegrave in the Midlands. They had one who was entitled to a hat as well as the small wage. One in Wakefield, who also got hats, shoes and hoses. That's part of the job. They turned Sleepfield into Wakefield. Brilliant. That was what they had on their badge.
No Such Thing As An Especially Attractive Barge, 2023-01-26 · listen
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