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Darrington, West Yorkshire
Darrington is a small village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Pontefract and 25 miles (40 km) from the city of York. The village is split in two by the busy A1 trunk road which runs from London to Scotland. The 2011 census population was 1,403.
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Pontefract South
Pontefract South is an electoral ward of the City of Wakefield district, used for elections to Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.
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Pontefract North
Pontefract North is an electoral ward of the City of Wakefield district, used for elections to Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.
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Stapleton, Selby
Stapleton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 59. The population taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Womersley. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) south-east from the towns of Pontefract and Knottingley.
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Selby, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The name Stapleton derives from the Old English stapoltūn meaning 'post settlement'.
Stapleton Park was the subject of a well-known painting of the Victorian era by John Atkinson Grimshaw.
Stapleton is home to the Stapleton Colony of the Brotherhood Church.
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Stapleton Colony
The Stapleton Colony, based in Stapleton, North Yorkshire, is a Christian pacifist and anarchist community, and the only remaining colony of the Brotherhood Church. By 2016 the population of the colony had declined to four residents.
In 1897 several members of the Brotherhood Church, some from a Quaker background, moved to Leeds. The receipt of a legacy left to a member, Lillian Ferris, enabled the group to relocate to a seven and a half acre smallholding at Stapleton in 1921.
The Stapleton community are vegetarian, grow much of their own organic food and attempt to live independently from the government. They are affiliated to the Peace Pledge Union, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and War Resisters' International. Residents have included Len W. Gibson (1919–2007) who was a lifelong peace campaigner and conscientious objector.