# Stapleton, Selby

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This article is about the village in southern North Yorkshire. For village in northern North Yorkshire, see [Stapleton-on-Tees](/source/Stapleton-on-Tees).

**Stapleton** is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parish) in [North Yorkshire](/source/North_Yorkshire), England. In 2001 the parish had a population of 59. The population taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of [Womersley](/source/Womersley). It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) south-east from the towns of [Pontefract](/source/Pontefract) and [Knottingley](/source/Knottingley).

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the [Selby District](/source/Selby_District), it is now administered by the unitary [North Yorkshire Council](/source/North_Yorkshire_Council).

The name Stapleton derives from the [Old English](/source/Old_English) *stapoltūn* meaning '[post](/source/Post_(structural)) settlement'.[1]

[Stapleton Park](/source/Stapleton_Park) was the subject of a well-known painting of the Victorian era by [John Atkinson Grimshaw](/source/John_Atkinson_Grimshaw).

Stapleton is home to the [Stapleton Colony](/source/Stapleton_Colony) of the [Brotherhood Church](/source/Brotherhood_Church).[2]

## See also

- [Listed buildings in Stapleton, Selby](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Stapleton,_Selby)

## References

1. ["Stapleton"](http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Yorkshire%20WR/Stapleton). *Key to English Place-Names*. The Institute for Name-Studies. Retrieved 29 October 2025.

1. ["Brotherhood Church"](http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk/index.php?fld=initial&val=B&one=dat&two=det&sel=brothood), Diggers and Dreamers. Retrieved 18 December 2013

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