This site  has much info on Castleford and this extract about John Wesley in the 1700's suggest about the only pub then was the "old " Ship Inn (it was rebuilt around 1930)

https://castlefordhistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/a-true-phenomenon/

"During that first visit to this area he may well have passed through Castleford to cross the River Aire, though he would have hardly noticed the place for at that time it was little more than a village of around six or seven hundred people ranged along what are now Aire Street, Bridge Street and Church Street, plus a pottery in Whitwood Mere and a few businesses alongside the canal, on what is now Lock Lane, connected with water transport. It had a medieval parish church, half-a-dozen almshouses (converted from a farmhouse) standing opposite, flour mills on both sides of the weir, the old Ship Inn and the village lock-up by the bridge, and that was more-or-less the extent of what was still essentially an agricultural community"