Mappleton (St. Mary)
MAPPLETON (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Wirksworth, S. division of the county of Derby, 1¾ mile (N. W.) from Ashbourn; containing 204 inhabitants. An estate and manor here belonged at an early period to the Bassetts, of Blore, whose heiress brought them to William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, by whose descendants they were sold in 1757. Another estate has been for a long period possessed by the Okeover family. The parish comprises 780 acres of fertile land, and has a pleasant village situated on the east bank of the Dove, which river is here crossed by a stone bridge having a remarkably flat arch. The living is a rectory, united to the vicarage of Ashbourn. The church is a small edifice, and has a dome surmounted by an urn. Rowland Okeover, Esq., in 1727, vested some land in trustees, for building almshouses for three clergymen's widows; the income is £90 per annum.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.