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
Birstall, West Yorkshire Birstall, West Yorkshire Birstall is a village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is part of Birstall and Birkenshaw ward which had a population of 16,298 at the 2011 census. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated close to the M62 motorway, approximately south-west of Leeds. The village is situated between Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Wakefield. Birstall's name is derived from the Old English "byrh" and "stall" meaning a fortified site. Birstall is not mentioned in the "Domesday Book" but is alluded to as one of two settlements in Gomersal. "Pigot's National Commercial