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
West Yorkshire only three in the North of England along with Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Lime Street. Other important railway stations in West Yorkshire include Bradford Interchange, Bradford Forster Square, Huddersfield, Halifax, Dewsbury, Keighley and Shipley. West Yorkshire also has Yorkshire's largest airport, Leeds Bradford Airport. Unlike South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire has no light transit system; the Leeds Supertram was proposed, but was later cancelled after the withdrawal of government funding. Public transport is run under the authority of West Yorkshire Metro. The are three major football clubs in West Yorkshire: Huddersfield Town, which is in the Premier League of English football;