Editing Wakefield (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Fall Ing, Wakefield (15946442051).jpg|thumb|River Calder]]
Wakefield is {{convert|9|mi}} south-east of Leeds and {{convert|28|mi}} south-west of York on the eastern edge of the [[Pennines]] in the lower Calder Valley. The city centre is sited on a low hill on the north bank of the [[River Calder, West Yorkshire|River Calder]] close to a crossing place where it is spanned by the 14th-century, nine-arched, stone [[Chantry Bridge]] and a reinforced concrete bridge built in 1929–1930.<ref name="Wakefield Bridge">{{NHLE |num=1273508 |desc=Wakefield Bridge |access-date=19 November 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Wakefield New Bridge">{{cite web |title=Wakefield New Bridge |url=http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=495 |publisher=engineering-timelines.com |access-date=18 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529075349/http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=495 |archive-date=29 May 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> It is at the junction of major north–south routes to Sheffield, Leeds and Doncaster and west–east routes to Huddersfield, Dewsbury and Pontefract.

Wakefield is within the area of the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire & Yorkshire coalfield and lies on the middle [[coal measure]]s and [[sandstone]]s laid down in the [[Carboniferous]] period.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/jca38_tcm6-5073.pdf |title=Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire & Yorkshire Coalfield Character Area 38 |publisher=Natural England |access-date=7 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906181005/http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/jca38_tcm6-5073.pdf |archive-date=6 September 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Wakefield includes the former outlying villages of [[Alverthorpe]], Thornes, Sandal, Portobello, Belle Vue, Agbrigg, Lupset, Kettlethorpe and Flanshaw. In the 2011 Census, Newton Hill, Outwood, Stanley and Wrenthorpe were counted as parts of Wakefield, having been classified separately in the 2001 Census.
{{Weather box|location = Wakefield
|metric first = Yes
|single line = Yes
|Jan high F = 44
|Feb high F = 44
|Mar high F = 49
|Apr high F = 53
|May high F = 60
|Jun high F = 65
|Jul high F = 69
|Aug high F = 69
|Sep high F = 63
|Oct high F = 56
|Nov high F = 49
|Dec high F = 45
|Jan low F = 36
|Feb low F = 36
|Mar low F = 37
|Apr low F = 39
|May low F = 45
|Jun low F = 50
|Jul low F = 54
|Aug low F = 54
|Sep low F = 50
|Oct low F = 45
|Nov low F = 39
|Dec low F = 37
|Jan precipitation inch = 3.41
|Feb precipitation inch = 2.50
|Mar precipitation inch = 2.67
|Apr precipitation inch = 2.46
|May precipitation inch = 2.19
|Jun precipitation inch = 2.63
|Jul precipitation inch = 2.01
|Aug precipitation inch = 2.50
|Sep precipitation inch = 2.53
|Oct precipitation inch = 2.91
|Nov precipitation inch = 3.06
|Dec precipitation inch = 3.62
|source 1 =<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/UKXX0152 |title=Average Weather for Wakefield, ENG – Temperature and Precipitation |publisher=Weather.com |access-date=22 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020192619/http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/UKXX0152 |archive-date=20 October 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|date=August 2010
}}

===Neighbouring towns and places===
{{Geographic location
|Centre    = Wakefield
|North     = [[Leeds]]
|Northeast = [[Castleford]]
|East      = [[Pontefract]]
|Southeast = [[Ackworth, West Yorkshire|Ackworth]]
|South     = [[Barnsley]]
|Southwest = [[Horbury]]
|West      = [[Ossett]]
|Northwest = [[Morley, West Yorkshire|Morley]]
}}