Hampole, West Riding

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.