Wakefield (Things to do - Places to Visit) - WAKEFIELD Top Tourist Placesbr City in Englandbr Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.br br The Battle of Wakefield took place in the Wars of the Roses and it was a Royalist stronghold in the Civil War.