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
Laverton, North Yorkshire Laverton, North Yorkshire Laverton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, about 7 miles west of Ripon. The population of this parish as taken at the 2011 census was 260. The River Laver, from which the village takes its name, flows through the village. The parish includes the area of Dallowgill east of the village of Laverton. Historically Laverton was a township in the ancient parish of Kirkby Malzeard in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate civil parish in 1866, and was transferred from the West Riding to North Yorkshire