FEATHERSTONE, an urban district in the Normanton parliamentary division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 6 m. E. of Wakefield, and 21 m. S.W. of Pontefract on the L.M.S. railway. Pop. (1931), 14,952. The industrial population is em ployed in large collieries. Here, on Sept. 7, 1893, serious riots, during a strike, resulted in the destruction of some colliery works.