Arksey is a village in the

City of Doncaster The City of Doncaster is a metropolitan borough with city status in the United Kingdom, city status in South Yorkshire, England. It is named after its principal settlement, Doncaster, and includes the surrounding suburbs of Doncaster as well as ...

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the north, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north-east, Lincolnshire ...

, England. It had an estimated population of 1,303 as of 2010. It was the birthplace of the children's writer

Barbara Euphan Todd Barbara Euphan Todd (9 January 1898 – 2 February 1976) was an English writer widely remembered for her ten books for children about a scarecrow called Worzel Gummidge. These were adapted for radio and television. The title story was chosen as ...

on 9 January 1890. Arksey has four satellite

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

Shaftholme Shaftholme is a small hamlet in South Yorkshire, England, in the parish of Arksey that is located half a mile north of Bentley and two miles north of Doncaster Doncaster ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire ...

Tilts Tilts is a hamlet in the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, some north of Doncaster city centre and south of Askern. Aside from some farms, there is a moat A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, buil ...

, Almholme and Stockbridge. The ''sey'' in ''Arksey'' means ''island'' in

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, which is appropriate as the village is surrounded by marshland. Arksey is older than the

Domesday Book Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...

. The Parish Church of All Saints is a Grade I

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, dating back to the 1120s.

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* Villages in South Yorkshire {{SouthYorkshire-geo-stub

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