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Pontefract Hookups: Pontefract Women Want to Meet

Hook up in Pontefract, where Wakefield, Leeds and the A1 are all close at hand.

Liquorice, racing and Pontefract hookups

Liquorice made Pontefract's name. The famous Pontefract cakes are still made here, in two liquorice factories, even though the plant itself no longer grows in the town, and there's a liquorice festival every year.

The town lies east of Wakefield and south of Castleford, in West Yorkshire, and around 31,000 people lived here at the 2011 census. It has been a market town since the Middle Ages: markets run on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with a smaller one on Fridays, and the covered market opens every day but Sunday. You may hear that Pontefract once had more pubs per square mile than anywhere in the UK. It's probably a legend, but it makes a decent opening line.

For hookups, the town's strength is how well connected it is. The A1 and the M62 are both close, it has its own bus station and railway stations, and places from Leeds to Sheffield are within reach without much effort. Sex in Pontefract doesn't have to mean someone from your own street.

Easy ways to meet halfway from Pontefract

Meeting someone from another town is simple from here. The A1 is reached through the junction at Darrington, and the M62 at junction 32 for Castleford or junction 33 for Knottingley. Without a car, the trains and buses cover a lot:

From	Goes to
Pontefract Baghill, on the Dearne Valley Line	York and Sheffield
Pontefract Monkhill, on the Pontefract Line	Leeds, Wakefield Westgate and Goole
Pontefract bus station	Barnsley, Knottingley, Leeds, Selby and Wakefield

The nearest towns with their own pages are South Elmsall, under seven miles away, and Wakefield, under eight, while Ossett, Selby, Barnsley, Leeds and Dewsbury are all between eleven and thirteen miles off.

In town, the racecourse is the obvious day out. It's the longest continuous horse racing circuit in Europe, with flat racing from the end of March to the end of October, and an afternoon at the races gives a first date something to cheer about. There's also rugby league with Featherstone Rovers, the area's professional club, and non-league football at Pontefract Collieries, known locally as the Ponte Colls. Keep that first meeting in public, and if you want to see who's around elsewhere, the locations page lists every town we cover.

Pontefract matches reach Leeds and Doncaster

Close to half of our members within 25 miles of Pontefract are 18 to 24. The 25 to 34s add another fifth, which leaves around three in ten aged 35 or over, with the 35 to 44s the largest of the older groups. Women are about one in five.

The circle reaches Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield, Huddersfield, Barnsley and Rotherham, and Sheffield and Doncaster, so those trains and buses do more than get you home at the end of the night.

18 to 2447%

25 to 3421%

35 to 4413%

45 to 5410%

55 and over9%

Ages of our members within 25 miles of Pontefract, today.

Pontefract questions before you meet

Do I have to go to Leeds or Wakefield to find a hookup from Pontefract?

Not always, but it helps to be open to it. Wakefield is under eight miles away and Leeds about twelve, and our members within 25 miles of Pontefract also reach Bradford, Sheffield and Doncaster. With trains from Baghill and Monkhill and buses to five towns, getting there and back is rarely the hard part.

Where can we meet in Pontefract itself?

Somewhere public in the town centre, or at the racecourse on a race day between late March and late October. If you're coming from different directions, Baghill and Monkhill stations and the bus station make meeting halfway straightforward.

Can I meet someone from Castleford or Knottingley?

Yes. Castleford lies to the north, both towns have their own junctions on the M62, and buses run from Pontefract to Knottingley. Set a distance on your profile that takes them in.

Hookups near Pontefract

Every town we cover is on the locations page, and the near me page explains how members find each other close to home.