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Ferry Fryston is a 
suburb
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of the town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of Castleford
Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the town centre the River Calder joins the ...
in West Yorkshire
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, England
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. It is situated in the metropolitan borough
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of the City of Wakefield
The City of Wakefield is a local government district with the status of a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of ...
. The appropriate ward is called Airedale and Ferry Fryston.
In the 18th century Ferry Fryston was a township and civil parish in the district of Pontefract. Water-Frystone, Wheldale, and Ferrybridge
Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton. It is linked to other communities by the A1, which follows t ...
were hamlets within the parish.
Coal mine
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
s existed within the boundaries of the former parish in New Fryston
New Fryston is a small former coal mining village in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, located in a river bend on the south bank of the River Aire.
The colliery opened in the 1870s in the grounds of the now-demolished Fryston Hall and was ...
, locally known as Fryston Pit, and in Wheldale. The former closed in 1985. The area where the mine once stood has now been re-developed. Wakefield Metropolitan District Council approved plans in November 2007 for 150 new dwellings, parkland and public open space. The dwellings have still yet to be built. Wheldale colliery closed in 1987. Its buildings above ground have been demolished. The areas of both collieries have been subject to land remediation work.
Most homes in the area were homes of local miners
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. Local authority
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housing was transferred in 2005 to a charitable community benefit organisation, Wakefield District Housing.
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