Page 8 (Note) lines 6, 21, for 826 read 926. Page 75, line 1, for Robert read Roger. PONTEFRACT AND ITS NAME. FROM the junction at Castleford of the two important Yorkshire rivers, the Aire and Calder, till they finally join the Humber, their united stream takes a very serpentine course, traversing a distance of rather more than double the length of a straight line from one place to the other. Their direction is generally easterly, and almost identical with that of the Calder; but before they finally adopt that course they make two remarkable bends, one to the north between Castleford and Brotherton, and one to the south between Brotherton and Beale. With the latter, however, which encloses the magnificent site occupied by Byram Hall and Park, we have no immediate concern; our present purpose is entirely with the former, which passes round three remarkable hills forming the angles of an equilateral triangle upon a base of about two thousand yards. Upon one of these hills, naturally of a conical form, made almost cylindrical by artificial means, stands Pontefract Castle; upon another, which is of a long barrow-like shape, stands what is now called B |