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Pomfret is a group of perciform fishes which includes about 20 species and belongs to the family Bramidae.
Pomfret may also refer to:
People
- Pomfret (surname), a surname
- Earl of Pomfret, formerly a title in the Peerage of Great Britain
Places
- Pontefract, West Yorkshire, still known locally as Pomfret, a name going back to Norman times
- Pomfret Castle or Pontefract Castle, prison of Richard II, now a ruin
- Pomfret Stakes, a horse race run at Pontefract
- Pontefract cake or Pomfret cakes, a small, roughly circular black sweet, made of liquorice
United States
- Pomfret, Connecticut
- Pomfret School, Connecticut
- Pomfret Street Historic District
- Pomfret Town House, an historic meetinghouse
- Pomfret, Maryland
- Pomfret, New York
- Pomfret, Vermont
Elsewhere
- Pomfret, North West, South Africa
- Pomfret, a fictional county town in the Inspector Wexford series of books
Other uses
- Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury, Pennsylvania
- Pomfret Plantation, Marion, Maryland
- USS Pomfret (SS-391), a World War II submarine
See also
- Pumphrey (disambiguation)
- Pommes frites (British English: chips; American English: French fries), potatoes cut into strips and deep fried
- All pages with titles containing Pomfret
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