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The
City of Wakefield
is in
West Yorkshire
,
England
. As well as
Wakefield
there are five other medium-sized
towns
-
Normanton
,
Pontefract
,
Featherstone
,
Castleford
and
Knottingley
- and some smaller towns in the City area. Most people who live in those towns will tell other people that they live in those towns, instead of telling them that they live in Wakefield. The City of Wakefield has a population of about 320,000 people.
There is a
mulberry
tree in the exercise yard of the
Wakefield Prison
. It is believed that the
prisoners
made up the song "Here we go round the mulberry bush" as they walked around and around the tree.
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