Pomfret Gallery is situated in the friendly market town of Pontefract in West Yorkshire. Close to the M62 and A1 and approximately 13 miles from Leeds. Market days are on Wednesdays and Saturdays and Freeport Designer Outlet is just a couple of miles down the road at Glasshoughton. There is a museum in the town centre with free entry and just on the outskirts of the town centre is the Castle ruins which date back to the 11th century, entry to the castle is also free. Pontefract has a racecourse adjacent to the park and meetings are held regularly during the summer months. Pontefract is known as the Liquorice capital of Britain and since 1284 has played an important part in the town. The best known sweet is the soft black "Pontefract Cake" and they can be purchased from the Haribo factory shop just across the road from Pomfret Gallery. Pontefract is also mentioned in works by several well known writers including the poem by Sir John Betjeman "The Liquorice Fields at Pontefract" and William Shakespeare who wrote of Richard II who was killed in "The bloody prison" in Pontefract Castle.