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George Dunhill, Robinson and Wordsworth, Haribo, and Dunhills Ltd blue plaque

Pontefract, Wakefield, England, United Kingdom

Liquorice. Liquorice was introduced to Pontefract as a medicinal plant in the Middle Ages. It was probably brought by crusaders returning from the Middle East to Pontefract Castle or by monks travelling to the town's monasteries. This road links Dunhill's, founded in 1760, and now Haribo, to the for

mer liquorice works of Robinson and Wordsworth founded in 1877.

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