MAPPLETON, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"MAPPLETON, a parish in the hundred of Wirksworth, county Derby, 1 mile N.W. of Ashbourne, its post town and railway station. The village, which is small, is situated at the bridge on the river Dove, and is a favourite fishing station. The inhabitants are principally engaged in agriculture, and in the dairy business.

The living is a rectory annexed to the vicarage* of Ashbourne, in the diocese of Lichfield. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small edifice with a dome, surmounted by an urn. The charities consist of about £195 per annum, the rental of lands, left by Rowland Okeover, in 1727, for the endowment of almshouses for three widows of clergymen. Mr. James Hawksworth is lord of the manor."

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