Pontefract Pontefract and Castleford, referred to locally as 'Cas Vegas'. It is reported that Pontefract once held the British record for the town with the most pubs per square mile: indeed, numerous pubs still survive in the town centre in particular, for example Beastfair Vaults, the Liquorice Bush, the Red Lion, the Malt Shovel and the Blackmoor Head. A Wetherspoon public house opened on Horsefair in 2010. Pontefract's deep, sandy soil makes it one of the few British places in which liquorice can successfully be grown. The town has a liquorice-sweet industry; and the famous Pontefract cakes are produced, though the
Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health NHS Trust was a Community health NHS trust which served the Wakefield metropolitan district, West Yorkshire providing community, mental health and learning disability services. The Trust was formed on 1 April 1993 and operated from a number of locations including Fieldhead Hospital, The Yorkshire Centre for Forensic Psychiatry (also known as Newton Lodge) the former Castleford, Normanton and District; Southmoor; and Ackton Hospitals (all now closed) and numerous health centres and other standalone units across the Wakefield district. The headquarters for the Trust was called Fernbank and was