Harpole is a village 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Northampton, in the West Northamptonshire district, in Northamptonshire, England, along the A4500 road (formerly the A45) about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the M1 Motorway junction 16.

[1] Prior to from 1974 to 2021 it was in the district council area of South Northamptonshire where it was part of Harpole and Grange ward, together with the parishes of Milton Malsor, Kislingbury, Rothersthorpe and Gayton.

The discovery was announced in December 2022 and described as "the most significant early medieval female burial ever discovered in Britain".

[3] 2001 census data[4] shows 1,547 people resident in the Parish Council area consisting of 755 males and 792 females (the 2009 estimated population is 1,557[5]), in 636 households, of which 82.6% were owner occupied or being purchased with a mortgage.

An early Christian Anglo-Saxon era burial site of a woman of high social standing was found in Harpole in spring 2022.