Campsall, West Riding

Description
Campsall, a township and a parish in W. R. Yorkshire. The township is situated 1 1/2 mile W of Askem station on the L. & Y.R., and 7 miles N by W of Doncaster, and includes the hamlet of Barnsdale. It has a post office under Doncaster ; money order and telegraph office, Askem. Acreage, 1730; population, 817; of the ecclesiastical parish, 907. The parish contains also the townships of Norton and Sutton. Campsall Park is the seat of the Frank family. The living is a discharged vicarage in the diocese of York; value, £269 with residence. The church is of the 13th century, and has a beautiful Decorated Norman tower. The nave is in the Perpendicular style. The vicarage was once a Cistercian monastery. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel and a cemetery.