Wakefield Public Bakehouse


Wakefield Civic Society
Records
Near this site stood the public bakehouse of the Lords of the Manor of Wakefield.  It was demolished in 1861 to make way for the Church Institute.  Later youth house.
2000





                                                 
                                            

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