Pontefract is an historic market town in West Yorkshire, England. Pontefract may also refer to: People Ella Pontefract (1896–1945), English writer Richard de Pontefract (fl. 1320), English Dominican friar Pontefract de Lacys' family tree Dan Pontefract, Canadian businessperson and writer Other Honour of Pontefract, a medieval English feudal barony which has existed since 1068 in present-day West Yorkshire Pontefract cake, a type of small, roughly circular black sweet Pontefract Castle, a castle ruin in Pontefract, England