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
Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire Fitzwilliam is a small village on the edge of West Yorkshire, England in the City of Wakefield district. The village falls within the Hemsworth ward of Wakefield City Council. It is part of the town of Hemsworth and local government is in the hands of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, with the Hemsworth Town Council as a mainly consultative body. However, the Post Office recognises it as a separate settlement from the town of Hemsworth. It was built as a pit village. It has a railway station on the Wakefield Line, providing it with connections to Leeds, Wakefield,