This is our coverage of Wakefield, historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Wakefield was created a City in 1888 and became a County Borough in 1913. The present Metropolitan Borough was formed in 1974 with the amalgamation of the City of Wakefield, Castleford Borough, Ossett Borough, Pontefract Borough, Featherstone Urban District, Hemsworth Urban District, Horbury Urban District, Knottingley Urban District, Normanton Urban District, Stanley Urban District, Wakefield Rural District, and parts of Hemsworth and Osgoldcross Rural Districts. At the same time it became part of the new West Yorkshire Metropolitan County. Since 1986 it has been a unitary authority.
These are the maps for Wakefield in our Yorkshire series:
The following maps are taken from the highly detailed Five-foot plans, and reduced to a scale of A Yard to the Mile. They show the area in even greater detail.
We also publish a series of small scale Inch to the Mile maps covering most of the country. The following is the principal sheet for the Wakefield area:
For further details of our One Inch Maps, visit the One Inch page.