Crofton, West Yorkshire Crofton, West Yorkshire Crofton is a village near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, about south-east of the city, some to the west of the town of Pontefract, and from the town of Featherstone. The population of the civil parish at the time of the 2011 census was 5,781. Crofton is listed in the Domesday Book as Scroftune. The village has one church, the cruciform All Saints' Church, which is Anglican. It dates from the 15th century. It shares an incumbent with the Church of St Peter the Apostle at Kirkthorpe. A Roman Catholic church built in the 1920s closed in
Ledsham, West Yorkshire the form "Ledesham". Like nearby Ledston, the name seems to refer to Leeds (or the Old English precursor of this name, "Loidis", which denoted a region rather than a town), meaning the "hām" ('homestead, farm') belonging to Leeds. Ledsham have a cricket team, who currently play in the Wetherby League. Ledsham, West Yorkshire Ledsham is a village and civil parish north of Castleford and east of Leeds in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The village is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough and near to the A1 Great North Road. It has a population of 162, increasing to