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John Leland - antiquary to King Henry VIII - passed through Castleford in about 1535, and his account is the earliest preserved of the area. The following quotation is of interest to us:

"Sum old people constantly adfirme that the Rigge or Watelyng Streate went through the Park of Pontefract. As far as I can gather this is the toune called Legiolium. At Castleford one shoid me there a Garth by the Church yard where many straung thingges of Fundations hath be found and he sayid that there had been a Castelle, but it was rather sum manor Place."

In 1725 William Stukeley, describing surviving traces of the Roman site wrote:

"Here the Herman Street passes the river Aire the place where the Roman ford was is a little above the cascade a paved road goes up the bank to the east side of the Church through the fields where innumerable coins are ploughed up. One part is called Stone Acre south of the Church is a pasture called Castle Garth: here were buildings of the city but the Roman Castrum was where the Church now stands."

Thomas Whittaker in 1790 and Richard Gough in 1806 both confirm.
The present Parish Church of All Saints is dated 1866, when today's building replaced a cruciform structure of Norman origin. It has been suggested that the steep slope on the western side,
altered during the nineteenth century, represents the west boundary of the old fort.

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