The town was incorporated in 1713 and was named after Pontefract in West Yorkshire, England.

Pomfret is bordered on the north by Woodstock, on the east by Putnam and Killingly, on the west by Eastford, and on the south by Brooklyn and Hampton.

Rocky paths connect the small cave, which is the actual wolf den with a glacially positioned boulder called the Indian Chair.

The Air Line Trail, a former railroad bed, joins the town of Pomfret with its neighbor to the east, Putnam.

The Airline Trail runs seven miles (11 km), much of it through an Audubon Society property named the Bafflin Sanctuary, a 700-acre (2.8 km2) nature preserve.

The Congregational Church, until its destruction by fire on December 7, 2013, stood on the eastern edge of the old town green on Pomfret Hill, across from the Pomfret School, a college preparatory school founded in 1894.

Across from Christ Church on the west side of Route 44 is the Rectory School,[2] founded in 1920.

At the divergence point of US 44 and CT 169 is Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church.