MAPPLETON, a parish in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH,
county of DERBY, 1 mile (N.W.) from Ashbourn,
containing 201 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, united to the vicarage of Ashbourn, in the
archdeaconry of Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and
Coventry. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a
dome surmounted by an urn. The river Dove is here
crossed by a stone bridge, having a remarkably flat arch
its span being seventy feet, and its semidiameter only
eleven. Rowland Okeover, Esq., in 1727, vested certain
lands in trustees for (amongst other purposes)
building almshouses for three clergymen's widows, and.
providing them with £ 10 per annum j which sum, in
consequence of the increased value of the estates, has
been raised to £30; the building comprises a centre
and two wings. Mappleton is in the honour of Tutbury,
duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction
of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday,
for the recovery of debts under 40s.