MAPPLETON, Derbyshire

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
  
  
• The church was built circa 1700.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1876.
  
  
• The church seats 120.

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1704.
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

"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]

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Directories

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

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Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Mappleton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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History

• In the 1800s, most of the parish was used for dairy pasturage.
  
  
• Alan J. FAGG provides an excellent capsule history at the Ashborne town site.

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Military Records

• There is a War Memorial plaque inside St. Mary's Church. A photograph and names are listed at Derbyshire War Memorials. The memorial covers World War I only.
  

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Names, Geographical

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

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Politics and Government

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

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a member of the Ashbourn Poorlaw Union.
  

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