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The site of The Water Rats, has had an impressive legacy as a music venue, but also as a location of historical importance and interest.

It was previously known as “The Pindar of Wakefield”, originally built in 1517, on the opposite side of the road, it shared it’s name with the Pinder of Wakefield (a person whose job was to impound stray animals), supposedly connected with Robin Hood mythology. It also shares it’s name with the historical Pindar’s fort, a local site believed to be beneath the Mount Pleasant Post Office.