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
1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire despite the fact that this would not be the case in West Yorkshire, where negotiations were underway to take GWR's Classic Gold service. Unhappy with the confusion, bosses in Bradford decided to create an emergency local service, hence the name 1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire which ran for a short period until Classic Gold started. The station later became West Yorkshire's Big AM, Pennine's Big AM, West Yorkshire's Classic Gold, Pulse Classic Gold and now Pulse Two. 1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire 1278 and 1530 AM West Yorkshire was a temporary name used for the AM sister station