Pontefract Castle secures Heritage Lottery Fund investment
 
  A painting of Pontefract Castle in its heyday by Alexander Keirinx dating to 1640
      
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  … Sally Port, Swillington Tower, restored Victorian paths and three viewing platforms, two of which will be fully … request of the townspeople of Pontefract in 1649. Since then, Pontefract Castle has been used as a place for … tennis courts and ornamental rose gardens. The castle is now managed by Wakefield Council on behalf of the Duchy of …
     
   
  