Osgoldcross Wapentake

Wapentakes of the West Riding. Osgoldcross is labelled 13 on the map.

Osgoldcross was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It included the parishes of Adlingfleet, Badsworth, Burghwallis, Campsall, Castleford, Darrington, Kellington, South Kirkby, Owston, Pontefract, Whitgift, Womersley, Ferry Fryston[1] and parts of Featherstone, Snaith and Wragby.

The original meeting place of the wapentake was the area which later became Pontefract Market Place.[2]

  1. ^ "Genuki: Ferry Fryston, Yorkshire (West Riding)".
  2. ^ David Hey, Medieval South Yorkshire