Sandal Castle is a ruin on the edge of the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire and overlooks the River Calder and Pugneys Country Park. It was the site of royal intrigue, the opening of one of William Shakespeare's plays, and possibly the source for a common children's nursery rhyme.
Surrey Roger d'Amory Act of Accord Pugneys Country Park The Grand Old Duke of York Knaresborough Castle Lewes Castle Fotheringhay Castle John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey Bolton Castle Skipton Castle William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey Conisbrough Castle Henry VI, Part 3 Pontefract Castle River Calder Edmund, Earl of Rutland Battle of Wakefield Wensleydale Coldstream Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York Margaret of Anjou John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster Battle of Bosworth Field Reigate Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York Adult education Pontefract Battle of Bannockburn Nursery rhyme Cavalier Wars of the Roses Richard III of England Elizabethan era Richard II of England Scottish Borders Edward IV of England Wakefield Rainbow Earl
