Pontefract is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near the A1 (or Great North Road), the M62 motorway, and Castleford. It is one of the five towns in the borough of Wakefield and has a population of approximately 30,000. Pontefract's motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for "After the death of the father, support the son", a reference to Civil War Royalist sympathies.