page_title: Tickhill
section_title: William I
hierarchical_section_title: Tickhill / History / William I
caption_attribution_description: English: St.Leonard's Hospital Almshouses on Northgate with a superb timber framed facade of 1470, restored in 1851, now Tickhill Parish Room
context_page_description: Tickhill is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, on the border with Nottinghamshire. It has a population of 5,301, reducing to 5,228 at the 2011 Census.
context_section_description: Shortly after the Norman Invasion, William I of England gave the lands around Tickhill to Roger de Busli, who built a castle on a small hill.  Richard de Busli, grandson of Roger's brother Arnold, co-founded nearby Roche Abbey with Richard FitzTurgis in 1147.
caption: St Leonard's Hospital
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