East Hardwick is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England.

[4] The Domesday Book does not record the village, but documents from 1120 refer to a Herdwica, and in 1296 as Herdwyk.

This avoided traffic from Leeds having to travel through Garforth and Ferrybridge to get on the Great North Road going south.

[11] The A639 road cuts through the western portion of the village, linking the settlement with Pontefract to the north and the A1 and Doncaster to the south-east.

[13] Until 1974 the village was part of Osgoldcross Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire.