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Wakefield Trinity
Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The club play their home fixtures at the DIY Kitchen Stadium, Belle Vue and currently compete in the Super League, the top tier of the British rugby league system. The club was one of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895. They have won the League Championship twice and Challenge Cup five times. Wakefield have local rivalries with Castleford Tigers and Featherstone Rovers as well as Leeds Rhinos. Their traditional kit colours are white with a red or blue V. Between 1999 and 2016 the club was known as Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. History Early years The club's predecessor was The Young Mens Society, formed in 1867 by the Holy Trinity Church to promote sports, with the team itself formed in 1873 alongside a similarly named athletics club, Wakefield Trinity Cycling and Athletic Club (now Wakefield District Harriers and Athletics Club). Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Wakefield is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder, West Yorkshire, River Calder. The city had a population of 109,766 in the 2021–2022 United Kingdom censuses, 2021 census, up from 99,251 in the 2011 Census for England and Wales, 2011 census. The city is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, which had a population of , the List of English districts by population, most populous district in England. It is part of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area and the Yorkshire and the Humber region. In 1888, it gained city status due to Wakefield Cathedral, its cathedral. The city has a Wakefield Town Hall, town hall and is home to the Wakefield County Hall, county hall, which was the former administrative centre of the city's county borough and metropolitan borough as well as county town for the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Battle of Wakefield took place in the Wars of the Roses, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
