Mappleton

The Ashbourne Library is an excellent resource with a Local History section and a Family History section.

We have a pop-up window of Parish Register burials (partially) extracted into a window for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.

Bill BOADEN has a photograph of the Churchyard at St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2015.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• There was a church here prior to The Norman Conquest (1066).
   
• The present church was built circa 1700 on the site of an ancient church.
   
• The church was rebuilt in the early 18th Century.
   
• The church was restored in 1876.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• John DARCH has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1704. (Some Ashborne parish register entries relate to Mapleton.)
   
• The parish was in the rural deanery of Ashbourne.

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

Note: Spelling has changed over time from "Mappleton" to "Mapleton".

"MAPPLETON is a pleasant village in the parish of its name, in the hundred of Wirksworth, about a mile and three quarters N.W. from Ashbourn; situate in a valley on the banks of the Dove, which is here crossed by a stone bridge, having a remarkably flat arch. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is a small edifice of stone with a low square tower, surmounted by a dome: it is the mother church to that of Ashbourn, and the living is united to that parish, as before mentioned. [Ed: with Ashbourne] Here are neat alms-houses for three clergymen's widows, founded, in 1727, by Rowland Okeover Esq. The parish (which has no dependent township) contained, at the last census, 180 inhabitants, being an increase in 30 years, of only eighteen persons."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The parish lies 148 miles north of the City of London and is on the border of Staffordshire (across the River Dove).

James ALLAN provides a photograph of the Oakover Bridge (over the River Dove) on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.

There is a fine map of Mappleton parish at the parish council site.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Mappleton entry under Ashbourne from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Mapleton entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Mel LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Mappleton entry from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1831.
   
• Colin HINSON provides a transcription of the section for Mappleton from the National Gazetteer (1868).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Mappleton to another place.

• In the 1800s, most of the parish was used for dairy pasturage.
   
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Oakover Arms P.H. on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2014.

Callow Hall Hotel is a house of historical significance. It lies 0.5 mile west of the town of Ashbourne, within the civil parish of Mapleton. It was built from 1849 to 1852 by H. J. STEVENS for John Goodwin JOHNSON, a local magistrate. It was converted to a hotel in 1982. There is more information on the family at Wikipedia.

In Feb. 2020, Derbyshire Live noted that £3.5 would be budgeted for a revamp of the Hotel.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK167477 (Lat/Lon: 53.026013, -1.751929), Mappleton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

On the north side of the church is a marble monument with a brass tablet to John Henry GOODWIN B.A. who died 23 May, 1863.

• Colonel Henry George SUTTON resided in this parish in 1912. He had served in the Indian Army in the Burmese War (1885 - 1889). He died on 22 January 1921. He is memorialized on the Hartington War Memorial.
   
• There is a War Memorial plaque inside St. Mary's Church. The memorial covers World War I only.

A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials.

The names on the War Memorial are:

1. WHEEN John Capt, 1st Kings Liverpool Regt. died 15/5/1915
2. BARNES Joseph Trooper, [Pte] 1602 Derbyshire Yeomanry died 21/8/1915
3. CARTER Charles Pte 2524, 1/6th Sherwwod Foresters Notts & Derby Regt. died 30/9/1915
4. CARTER Thomas George Pte 3541 Sherwood Foresters, Notts & Derby Regt. died 15/10/1915
5. MASKERY Albert Able Seaman BristolZ/51111 Drake Bn Royal Navy Division, Royal Navy died 14/6/1917
6. SMITH Samuel Pte 91290 11th Sherwood Foresters Notts & Derby Regt Previously Royal Army Medical Corps died 23/10/1918

• The "prefered" spelling is "Mapleton" but the form with two Ps is commonly used and accepted: Mappleton.

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar contributes this snippet from the Derby Mercury of 28 October, 1802, MARRIED: "On Monday the 18th inst. at Mappleton, near Ashborne, Mr. C. H. HOLLAND, of Manchester, to Miss SIMPSON, of Wirksworth, in this county."

Jane TAYLOR in Redcar provides this notice from the Derby Mercury of 4 July 1804: "MARRIED: Yesterday, at All Saints, in this town, Mr. R. WOOD, of Mappleton, to Miss HODGKINSON, of Wingerworth, both in this county."

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Wirksworth Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the Mappleton Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Derbyshire Dales District Council.

• Bastardy cases were heard at the Ashbourn petty session hearings every Saturday.
   
• The Okeover Almshouses, near the parish church, were buit in 1727-30 and still standing.
   
• With the passage of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became a member of the Ashbourne Poorlaw Union.

A National School (mixed), was erected in 1876, for 55 children.