Heritage Open Days
An opportunity to visit heritage venues and events for FREE . Find out what is open to visit near you.
An opportunity to visit heritage venues and events for FREE . Find out what is open to visit near you.
Twenty 7 are holding a coffee morning in support of Macmillan Cancer support .
Explore the important and wonderful world of liquorice and its history in Pontefract delivered as a guided tour
Join us on our popular tours of the Pontefract Castle dungeon – free for Heritage Open Days!
Take a tour of the Pontefract Castle dungeon
Soak in the atmosphere of this eerie underground space. Discover the many uses of the dungeon. See where English Civil War prisoners left to languish scratched their names into the rock.
A walking tour giving the history of liquorice growing in Friarwood Valley Gardens by Dr Colin White.
Pontefract has been synonymous with liquorice, a flowering plant of the bean family, for centuries.
2026 marks the 50th anniversary for KCB and this year's Parton's Concert will celebrate this wonderful achievement in full.
Featherstone Male Voice Choir will be performing alongside Ripon City Band in a joint concert at St Giles Church, Pontefract.
Come along to a quiz night at the Pontefract Masonic Hall.
In response to popular demand — and in partnership with Wakefield District Markets, with encouragement from Pontefract Civic Society — we’re delighted to bring an Artisan Craft Fair to Pontefract Market Place. This marks our first solo venture into outdoor events in Pontefract, and we’re genuinely excited to take the plunge… even if we’re starting…
David Hardcastle, is a retired West Yorkshire Police constable of 20 years and is a volunteer at a local police museum. He will be giving an interactive presentation on the history of the police service over the last 120+ years. The presentation will feature historical artefacts that will be available to handle during the talk for proper immersion in the history of policing, artefacts ranging from 1880, covering the Victorian period, both World Wars and into the 21st Century. A big assortment of various police uniforms, helmets, hats and even a working radio from the 1980s for the audience to try!