Cemetery Heritage Trail – Guided Walk Dates:
We now have the dates for the summer programme. Anyone who hasn’t been on this brilliant walk around Castleford’s Victorian Cemetery on Healdfield Road (or you would like to come again) please book your place now.
You can book by contacting us here.
For more details of our Cemetery Heritage Trail, which tells the story of Castleford through 17 individual gravestones, please visit our website: Cemetery Trail Project
Dates: Sunday, June 14th at 2 pm and Wednesday, July 8th, 6.30 pm
We meet at the Cemetery Gates: WF10 4LL

Heritage Open Days Information Session at West Yorkshire History Centre, Thursday 21st May, 6-8pm
If you would like to attend this event please book online at:
Heritage Open Days Information Session at West Yorkshire History Centre event tickets from TicketSource
Castleford Civic Society are on the programme of speakers, as we share our experiences from last year’s very successful Heritage Open Day events we organised in Castleford.

Saturday, 30th May 2026- 9.30 am outside Castleford Library - come along and join us to see the launch of a new and exciting Castleford Civic Society initiative, which remembers our past and will certainly help to promote pride in our town in the future.

Roman Festival, Saturday 30th May 2026 – We have a stall/gazebo this year and it will be staffed between 10 am and 3 pm.
As well as welcoming people and talking about the Civic Society we will be recording memories from anyone who took part in the various archaeological digs across Castleford from the 1970s onwards.
Hopefully you will come along to help or just call by to say hello:
Discovering Lagentium - Wakefield Museums and Castles

Heritage Network, 1st June 2026 - The next meeting of all the groups in Castleford with an interest in Heritage will be held on Monday, 1st June at 7.30 pm Trinity Methodist Church, Castleford, WF10 1EL.
You can just turn up or book your ticket at this link:
https://www.ticketsource.com/wakefield-council-heritage/t-oeeaxoy

Civic Blue Plaques – the two new QR coded videos for the Civic Plaques to be sited at the Roman Bath Site and Hartley’s bridge will be ready shortly.

Castleford Market Memories - The museum now has the market exhibition in and ready to view. The memories we gathered when we had a stall in the market are also online. If you get a chance, please visit the Museum. The link for the exhibition and online comments is here:
Memories of Castleford Market - Wakefield Museums and Castles

Herbert Smith events:
After the very successful rededication of Herbert Smith’s grave this week, we will continue throughout the year with further events celebrating the life of Herbert. Herbert Smith, who was President of the Mineworkers Federation of Great Britain at the time of the General Strike, is buried in Castleford Cemetery (and features in Castleford’s Cemetery Heritage Trail). We are working with Warwick University on an online exhibition.
We will also hold an in-person exhibition within Castleford.
Talks about Herbert will be held during the Heritage Open Days Festival in September.
There will also be a cultural evening later in the year.
On the 18th June the Civic Society will be represented at a Conference organised by Warwick University ‘Blood is the Price of Coal’, speaking about Herbert Smith and our local research. This free Conference is open to all and you can find more details here Conference programme

If you would like to ask anything or have any ideas you would like to share, please get in touch.