Hooton Pagnell is a village and

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in the

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, England, on the border with

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. It lies on the B6422 road, between

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and South Elmsall and is at an elevation of around above

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. It had a population of 211 at the 2001 Census, reducing slightly to 201 at the 2011 Census. The name of the village derives from

Ralph de Paganel Ralph Paynel or Paganel (fl. 1089) was an 11th-century Norman, a landowner, partisan of William II of England, and sheriff of Yorkshire. He was the son of Ralph Paynel (also known as Ralph de St. John; Ralph de Brehal; Ralph de Moulins; Ralph de ...

(sometimes spelled Paynell), a Norman who was a

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in Yorkshire named in the

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and an extensive landowner.A Topographic Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis (editor), 1848, Institute of Historical Research, British History Online
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History

The first recorded mention of Hooton Pagnell is found in Domesday Book, where it is called "Hotone" ("The Town on the Hill" or "The High Dwelling Place"). "In Hotone and Bileham Earl Edwin had one manor of ten carucetes for geld, and ten ploughs may be there.. . . . . . . . . In the time of King Edward it was worth eight pounds, now one hundred shillings." The , that was in 1086 the extent of the cultivated land in Hooton, were given to Robert, Count of Mortain. He in turn sublet the land to Richard de Surdeval, a Norman knight. The village was variously called "Hoton", "Howton", "Hutton", the second part of the name being added during the time of the Paganals, a distinguished Norman family into whose hands the manor passed towards the end of the 11th Century. The second part of the name is variously spelt - "Paynel", “Painell", "Pannell", "Pagnell". Hence, "Hooton Pagnell" - "The High Dwelling Place of the Paynels'. The village received a

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in 1254 entitling it to hold a

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on Thursdays and an annual three-day fair. A

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was built, the base of which survives, but the market and fair soon ceased. However the fair has since been revived and is held very first Sunday in July. The ownership of Hooton remained in the hands of the Paganels and their heirs till the reign of Edward IV through the names of Paganel, and through marriage, Luterel and Hilton. A glimpse of Hooton Pagnell Hall

Hooton Pagnell Hall and the Estate

Much of the property in the village belongs to the estate of Hooton Pagnell Hall, which has been in the family of former

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Sir Patience Warde since the 17th century. Before that it was owned by Sir Richard Hutton of

Goldsborough Hall Goldsborough Hall is a Jacobean stately home located in the village of Goldsborough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a member of the Historic Houses Association. The house itself is a Grade II* listed building. The Hall was built for Sir Ri ...

who bought the estate in 1605. Hutton's descendant Col Robert Byerley, of

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fame, sold the hall and estate to Sir Patience Warde in 1703. With increased wealth, the Hall was extensively restored in Victorian times: following the sale of many large properties to meet death duties, the estate is now owned by a family trust. Mary Betty Norbury received the Hooton Pagnell estate as a gift from her father, Col William St Andrew Warde-Aldam, in 1952, and she and her husband assumed the surname of Warde-Norbury by Royal Licence in 1958.

Hooton Pagnell Church

Close to the hall is the

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of ''All Saints'': a

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square-towered church. Originally built in Norman times, the church was white-washed during

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. With the revival of ritual as a result of the Oxford Movement, the church was restored to a more High Church style in the 1870s by the owner of the estate,

Julia Warde-Aldam Sarah Julia Warde-Aldam (; 1857–1931) was a South Yorkshire estate owner, benefactor and hospital commandant. Early life and marriage Julia Warde was born at Carleton, near Pontefract, the younger daughter of Revd William Warde, previo ...

, who also restored the church in the neighbouring village of Frickley. The Warde-Aldams' wealth was based on land-ownership but was boosted significantly by the exploitation of coal reserves in the estates land with the sinking of Frickley colliery, located in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire.

St Chad's Hostel

In 1902 the vicar of Hooton Pagnell, Revd

Frederick Samuel Willoughby Frederick Samuel Willoughby (1862-1928) was a Church of England priest, academic administrator and later Old Catholic bishop. While vicar of Hooton Pagnell, he founded and was first principal of St Chad's Hostel, which survives as St Chad's Coll ...

, opened

St Chad's Hostel St Chad's Hostel, in Hooton Pagnell near Doncaster, England, was a hostel to prepare candidates for theological college. It was opened in 1902 by Frederick Samuel Willoughby, vicar of Hooton Pagnell. In 1904 a sister institution, St Chad's Hal ...

in the village to prepare men of limited means to enter theological college. He was supported in this by Lady of the Manor

. Initially students were housed in the vicarage, then, as numbers grew, in surrounding farms; before a dedicated purpose-built hostel, funded by Warde-Aldam, was opened in 1904. In 1904, further financial support from Liverpool businessman

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made it possible to establish

St Chad's Hall , motto_English = Not what you have, but who you are , scarf = , established = 1904 , principal = Margaret Masson , senior_tutor = Eleanor Spencer-Regan , undergraduates = 409 , postgraduates = 150 , website = , coordinates = , location_map ...

in Durham as a sister institution to the hostel. The hostel continued to operate as a preliminary place of study until 1916, when it was requisitioned as a war hospital and all teaching was moved to Durham. The hostel briefly re-opened after the war, but closed permanently in 1921. The hostel building was bequeathed to the village by the Warde-Aldam family as a village club, and now operates as a pub, "The Hostel".

Politics

Being an estate village, politics were traditionally dominated by the local landowners and by the church since Hooton Pagnell has its own vicar up to 1979. As the economics of the village have changed, it has become a commuter village in one of the very few Conservative wards in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The Village lies in the constituency of

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and the local MP is

Ed Miliband Edward Samuel "Ed" Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Climate Change and Net Zero since 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliban ...

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