{{Short description|Village in South Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.586016|-1.237426|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Hampole | population = 203 | population_ref = (including Skelbrooke, 2011 Census)<ref name="NOMIS">{{NOMIS2011|id=E04000079|title=Hampole Parish|access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref> | area_total_sq_mi = 4.16 | metropolitan_borough = City of Doncaster | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire | post_town = Doncaster | postcode_district = DN6 | postcode_area = DN | dial_code = 01302 | os_grid_reference = | constituency_westminster = Doncaster North | static_image_name = Hampole Manor, Hampole - geograph.org.uk - 247451.jpg | static_image_caption = Hampole Manor | type = Village | pushpin_map = United Kingdom Borough of Doncaster | pushpin_map_caption = Location within City of Doncaster }}
'''Hampole''' is a small village and civil parish in the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, close to the border with West Yorkshire. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the eastern boundary of the parish is marked by the Great North Road (now the A1), and the parish lies in what was once the Barnsdale Forest. It had a population of 187 in 2001,<ref>{{NOMIS2001|id=00CE023|title=Hampole Parish|access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref> increasing to 203 at the 2011 Census, which includes the neighbouring village of Skelbrooke.<ref name="NOMIS"/> Hampole lies on the A638 between Doncaster and Wakefield.
==History== Hampole is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having two ploughlands, woodlands and three villagers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hampole {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE5010/hampole/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref> The name of the village derives from the Old English name of ''Hana'' and ''pōl'', meaning ''Hana's pool'', the first part being someone's name.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |oclc=1228215388 |page=215|edition=4}}</ref><ref name="AHS">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=A. H. |title=The place-names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Part 1 : Lower and Upper Strafforth and Staincross wapentakes |date=1961 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |page=70|oclc= 928665241 }}</ref> The priory at Hampole was founded {{circa|1153}} by Avici de Tania. When the priory was closed during the Dissolution, it had a complement of 14 nuns.<ref>{{cite web |title=Houses of Cistercians nuns: Priory of Hampole {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/vol3/pp163-165 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk |access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The South & West Yorkshire village book |date=1991 |publisher=Countryside Books |location=Newbury |isbn=1853061360 |page=118}}</ref>
Hampole railway station opened in February 1886 and closed on 7 January 1952.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bairstow |first1=Martin |title=Great Northern railway in the West Riding. |date=1999 |publisher=Bairstow |location=Farsley |isbn=1-871944-19-8 |page=94}}</ref>
The parish includes the villages of Hampole, Skelbrooke and Barnsdale. The parish of Hampole is part of the Sprotbrough Ward of Doncaster Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Maps Hampole |url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/?x=449966&y=411535&z=6&bnd1=MTW&bnd2=CPC&labels=on |website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=12 June 2022}}</ref>
By the A1 road, near Skelbrooke, is Robin Hood's Well, with its stone cover designed by John Vanbrugh. Little John's Well lies to the west of Hampole village.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Michael |title=In search of England : journeys into the English past |date=1999 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=0-520-23218-6 |page=84 |chapter=4. Merrie Englande: the Legend of Robin Hoode}}</ref>
Hampole lies about two miles north west of the model village of Woodlands; and of Highfields Wood, where there is a brook known as Robin Hood's Brook.
Notable buildings include the Grade II listed Church of St Michael and All Angels in Skelbrooke,<ref>{{NHLE|num=1314783 |desc=Church of St Michael and all Angels |accessdate=5 August 2018 }}</ref> Hampole Manor with Hampole Manor Cottage,<ref>{{NHLE|num=1151654 |desc=Hampole Manor Hampole Manor Cottage |accessdate=5 August 2018 }}</ref> and an 18th-century barn on Steep Hill Lane.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1191849|desc=Barn at Hill Farm Immediately to Front Left of Farmhouse|accessdate=5 August 2018}}</ref> To the south of the village is the Hampole Wind Farm, run by the company Good Energy.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wind farm brings church chimes back to Hooton Pagnell |url=https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/wind-farm-brings-church-chimes-back-to-hooton-pagnell-71669 |access-date=12 June 2022 |work=The Sheffield Star |date=23 February 2016}}</ref> The site, which started generating in spring 2014, consists of four turbines generating enough electricity to power 5,400 homes per year.<ref>{{cite news |title=Suzlon Group wins 58 MW of UK orders |url=https://www.suzlon.com/press-release-detail/114/suzlon-group-wins-58-mw-of-uk-orders |access-date=12 June 2022 |work=Suzlon |date=18 September 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hampole Wind Farm |url=https://cms.goodenergy.co.uk/our-energy/our-wind-farms/hampole-wind-farm/ |website=cms.goodenergy.co.uk |access-date=6 October 2022 |date=8 August 2016}}</ref>
==See also == *Robin Hood *Richard Rolle *Listed buildings in Hampole
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Hampole}}
Category:Villages in Doncaster Category:Civil parishes in South Yorkshire