Pontefract Castle

Follow in the authentic footsteps of servants, royalty, and children to find out Pontefract Castle’s exciting and unique stories. The Castle is a place to surround yourself in history, through its award winning, exciting and engaging learning programmes. Explore local history where it happened. Whether its sorting soil for Pontefract’s Liquorice history; preparing the Castle for a Royal visit; creating adventures with Ilbert the dragon; manoeuvring a battering ram to understand Civil War tactics, picking and grinding herbs to make Tudor remedies, or reciting Shakespeare’s Richard II in the dungeons, there’s something to entice everyone.

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