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Exhibiting Castleford from Bronze Age and Roman times, through its industrial heyday to the present. And of course Henry Moore.
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A big entertainment complex at Junction 32 of M62, midway between Pontefract and Castleford. Attractions include the Cineworld multi-cinema, indoor wall-climbing, bowling, trampolining, indoor golf and, yes, skiing on real snow. Plus a dozen bars and food outlets, J32 retail park adjacent, and a Premier Inn.
This has flat-racing April to October. The course encloses a park with a large duck pond. Inside the course railings is a paved track for racecourse vehicles, so even in wet weather this is a good walking and running circuit of 2 miles 1 furlong. The bottom end of the park is marshy with a bird hide, and a tunnel cuts under the M62 to give access to J32 / Xscape.
Local history from castle to cake. The shoe that Charlie Chaplin ate in The Gold Rush was made of Pontefract liquorice.
Norman castle where Richard II met a nasty end. In the Civil Wars it withstood Cromwell’s assaults but after surrendering was demolished to prevent future trouble.