Hampole in the Domesday Book (1086)
Hampole is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.
Other Settlements in Strafforth
- Adwick [le Street]
- Adwick [upon Dearne]
- Armthorpe
- Aston
- Attercliffe
- Auckley
- Aughton [Hall]
- Austerfield
- Balby
- Barnbrough
- Barnby [Dun]
- Bentley
- Bilham [House]
- Billingley
The Meaning of the Name
The origin of the name Hampole is not securely established from its modern form alone; like many settlement names in the North it likely combines an Old English or Old Norse personal name with a landscape term.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Hampole.
Listed Buildings Near Hampole
Historic England records 3 listed buildings within about a mile of Hampole. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II
- Hampole Manor and Hampole Manor Cottage - 0.24 km
- Seat at Little Johns Well Approximately 10 Metres to North of Road - 0.82 km
- Stubbs Hall - 1.11 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Hampole
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Hampole:
- Castle Hill - 0.56 km
Hampole Today
Today Hampole lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 177 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Hampole on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
- Hamphall Stubbs - 1.4 km NW
- Skelbrooke - 2.2 km NE
- Skellow - 3.0 km E
- Brodsworth - 3.0 km S
- South Elmsall - 3.2 km W
- Pickburn - 3.2 km S
Heritage Around Hampole
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Bill Henderson · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Steve Fareham · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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