city in NC England, in West Yorkshire: county district pop. 311,000
See Wakefield in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(wākˈfēldˌ)
A borough of north-central England east-northeast of Manchester. In the Battle of Wakefield (1460) Richard Plantagenet, the third duke of York (1411-1460), was slain by Lancastrian forces in the Wars of the Roses.
