The Pontefract Castle

Name: The Pontefract Castle
Age: Built between 1719 and 1746
Location: Wigmore Street, Marylebone
Information: The Pontefract Castle on Wigmore Street got its name like many other buildings, streets and squares in Marylebone. They are name after the people who built up the area, the estates they held and their family titles. The Duke of Newcastle had held Pontefract Castle in West Yorkshire for the King in 1642 during the English civil war and it was John Cavendish Holles, Duke of Newcastle who had begun building the area of Marylebone in 1708.