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
Clifford, West Yorkshire Clifford, West Yorkshire Clifford is a small village in West Yorkshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 1,662. The village is 3 miles (5 km) south of Wetherby. Many of the older buildings are built of magnesian limestone. The village of Clifford takes its name from "Clyf"' and "ford" Old English for ford at the bank or cliff, referring to the crossing of the River Wharfe at Boston Spa which was then within the manor. Clifford is mentioned in the Domesday Book, when Ligulf held the manor of six carucates with four ploughs. In the Middle Ages Clifford