Hampole, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Hampole, a township in Adwick-le-Street parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 5 miles NW of Doncaster. It has a post office under Doncaster; money order and telegraph office, South Elmsall; and a station on the West Riding and Grimsby Joint railway. Acreage, 1301; population, 150. A Cistercian nunnery was founded here in 1170 by William de Clarefai, and was given at the dissolution to Francis Aislaby. A chapel on the site of the nunnery was built by the late Lord Rendlesham, was intended and for some time served as a chapel of ease, but is now used as a day school, and on Sundays for religions services by the church, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. Richard Roble, a hermit, resided at Hampole, and was supposed to be the first man who translated the Scriptures into English.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Adwickle Street | |
Poor Law union | Doncaster | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Strafforth and Tickhill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hampole from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hampole are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: