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Wakefield is a city by the River Calder in West Yorkshire, England. It forms the urban core and administrative centre of the wider City of Wakefield metropolitan district.

Its population was 76,886 in 2001. The city's boundaries are subject to a wide range of definitions,<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10472878&c_id=10001043 Map of Historical Boundaries]</ref> and it is not clear what definition the census was using in its calculations.

Wakefield was dubbed the "Merrie City" in the Middle Ages.

Etymology
The name "Wakefield" is often said to derive from "Waca's field" - the field belonging to Waca. However, it is more likely to have evolved from Old English ''wacu'', meaning "a watch or wake", and ''feld'', an open field in which a wake was held.<ref>{{cite book |last=Reaney |first=P.H. |title=The origin of English place-names (corrected 3rd pr.) |year=1964 |publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul |location=London |pages=pp. 161 |isbn=0-7100-2010-4</ref> In the Domesday Book of 1086, it was listed as Wachefeld.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mills |first=A.D. |title=A dictionary of English place-names (2nd ed.) |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |pages=pp. 361 |isbn=0-19-280074-4</ref> also as Wachefelt.

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