MAPPERLEY, Derbyshire

Census

• The parish was in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
  
  
• The church was built in 1851.
  
  
• The church seats 200.
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1851.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Ilkeston.
  

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Civil Registration

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  
• The parish was in the Horsley sub-district of the Belper Registration District.
  

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Description and Travel

"MAPPERLEY, a township in the parish of Kirk-Hallam, hundred of Appletree, county Derby, 7 miles N.E. of Derby, its post town, and 2 N.W. of the Ilkeston railway station. The village, which is of small extent, is situated near the Erewash canal. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the collieries. There is a Sunday-school with an endowment of £6 per annum, also a place of worship for the Wesleyans."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Directories

• Ann Andrews provides a transcription of the Mapperey entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

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Politics and Government

• This parish was in the ancient Appletree Hundred (or Wapentake).
  

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