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Modern Wakefield includes the former villages of Alverthorpe, Agbrigg, Flanshaw, Kettlethorpe, Lupset, Sandal Magna, and Thornes, and the neighbouring council estates. In the 2011 Census, Newton Hill, Outwood, Stanley and Wrenthorpe were counted as parts of Wakefield, having been classified separately in the previous Census.
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The Rhubarb Triangle
There was a time Yorkshire boasted that it grew up to 95% of the Rhubarb grown in Europe was grown within a 9 sq. mile area known as the Rhubarb Triangle. The triangle sits between Wakefield and Leeds and includes fields around Rothwell & Morley. Sadly some of the rhubarb fields are gradually disappearing having now become housing or industrial estate but Wakefield is proud of its association with this plant and host a Festival each year.