Mapperley in the Domesday Book (1086)
Mapperley is named in the Domesday Book, compiled by Norman commissioners in 1086, entered under the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Appletree
- Alkmonton
- Ashe
- Aston
- Barton [Blount]
- Bentley
- Boylestone
- Bradley
- Brailsford
- Bupton
- Clifton
- Doveridge
- Eaton [Dovedale]
- Edlaston
- Ednaston
The Meaning of the Name
The name Mapperley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Mapperley.
Listed Buildings Near Mapperley
Historic England records 12 listed buildings within about a mile of Mapperley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade II*
Grade II
- Numbers 28 and 29 Church Lane - 0.51 km
- Lychgate to Holy Trinity Church and attached walls - 0.55 km
- The Gardens - 0.75 km
- Former Water Tower to Shipley Hall South of Home Farm - 0.77 km
- Paul’s Arm Bridge to Southern End of Shipley Reservoir at Sk 444 438 - 0.92 km
- Nottingham Lodge - 0.92 km
- Gatepiers and Wall at Nottingham Lodge at Sk 440443 - 0.93 km
- Western Gatepiers and Walls to Derby Lodge at Sk 435 444 - 0.99 km
- Derby Lodge - 1.0 km
- Mapperley Park Farmhouse and Cottage - 1.05 km
- Colliery Road Bridge to Southern End of Shipley Reservoir at Sk 446 438 - 1.1 km
Scheduled Monuments Near Mapperley
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 2 lie within roughly a mile of Mapperley:
- Moated site in Mapperley Park Wood - 0.96 km
- Park Hall moated site, well and enclosure - 1.22 km
Mapperley Today
Today Mapperley lies within the administrative area of Amber Valley, and the settlement recorded a population of 274 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Mapperley on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Mapperley
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Garth Newton · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen McKay · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Stephen McKay · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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