Mapperley is a suburb, residential and commercial area of north-eastern Nottingham, England. The area is bounded by Sherwood to the north-west, Thorneywood to the south and Gedling to the east.
History
At various periods the terms 'Mapperley' and 'Mapperley Plains' have been applied to lands, on either side of Woodborough Road (B684), from a point at the junction of Mapperley Road, north-east for a distance of some 3+3⁄4 miles (6.0 km), to that point where the road forks towards Woodborough village. The stretch of Woodborough Road from Mapperley Road to Porchester Road is called 'Mapperley Plains' on Jackson's map of 1851–66, for example.[1][2] This section considers the history of the suburb within the present day city boundary.
The origins of the city of Nottingham suburb called Mapperley seem to be found in the fourteenth century. Writing in the 1670s about lands in the lordship of Basford (i.e. west of present-day Woodborough Road) which were called cornerswong, Dr Robert Thoroton, notes:
Geography
The main part of Mapperley is at a little over 400 feet (120 metres) above sea level and is the highest area of Nottingham.[22] It is on a long narrow spur (the remnant of a plateau eroded by glacial melt water) that runs SW-NE on a narrow ridge, now topped by Woodborough Road.
Some of the Nottingham region's largest brickworks were formerly on the high ground at Mapperley, as its Keuper marl (now known as Mercia Mudstone), was suitable for brick making. This led to the saying that 'Nottingham once stood on Mapperley Plains', for the area was the source of so many of the town's buildings in the nineteenth century. Victorian Nottingham bricks were once exported to other parts of the country and, it is said that the bricks for St Pancras railway station came from Mapperley.[23]
Locally, the name "Mapperley Top" is used to describe the collection of shops running along Woodborough Road roughly three miles from Nottingham's city centre.
Mapperley Park is a conservation area and one of Nottingham's most prestigious residential locations, just north of the city centre and noted for its distinguished Victorian and Edwardian properties set along attractive tree lined avenues. Its boundaries are Mapperley Road (south), Mansfield Road (west), Private Road (north) and Woodborough Road (east).
The location known as Mapperley Ridge, at 122 metres above sea level, has a transmitter which broadcasts BBC Radio Nottingham and Capital FM (formerly Trent FM), as well as three DAB digital radio multiplexes (NOW Nottingham, BBC National DAB, and Digital One).[24]
Politics
Mapperley today is represented both on Nottingham City Council and Gedling Borough Council. The current councillors are evenly split: three for the City Ward, who are Labour Party councillors, and three for the borough, who are also Labour Party councillors.
The population of Mapperley Ward (part of Nottingham unitary authority) at the 2011 census was 15,846.[25]
Education
State funded schools
- Mapperley Plains Primary and Nursery School
- Walter Halls Primary and Early Years School
- Westdale Infant School
- Westdale Junior School
Private schools:
- Jamia Al-Hudaa (Islamic school for girls)
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School (located in a part of Mapperley close to St Ann's)
Other:
- Carlton Digby School- A special school providing education for children and young people between the ages of three and eighteen with a wide range of special educational needs.
Sport
A.F.C. Mapperley is an amateur football club that has represented the area since its inception in 2018.
Bus service
- 25/25B: Nottingham, Carlton Hill, Westdale Lane, Mapperley, Daybrook, Arnold. (25B terminates at Mapperley Shops)
- 60: Nottingham, Woodborough Road, Mapperley, Westdale Lane, Gedling. (Replacing Route 45)
- 61: Nottingham, Woodborough Road, Mapperley, Mapperley Plains, Lambley, Woodborough, Calverton. (Replacing Routes 46/47)
- 19: Sherwood Vale, Mapperley, Arnold, Bestwood Park, Top Valley, Bulwell.[26]
Nottingham Minibus & Coaches [27]
- N73: Mapperley, Westdale Lane, Carlton, Netherfield, Victoria Retail Park.
Notable people
- TommyInnit (born 2004), YouTube and Twitch streamer.[citation needed]
- Reg Leafe (1914–2001), FIFA Referee.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ↑ A. Stapleton, Old Mapperley, Being a History of that Nottingham Suburb, from the Earliest Records to the Present Time (1902), p. 150
- ↑ Frederick Jackson, Plan of the Town and the County of the Town of Nottingham ... (1861)
- ↑ R. Thoroton, History of Nottinghamshire: vol 2: Republished with large additions by John Throsby (1790), pp. 230–1.
- ↑ W. H. Stevenson (ed.), Records of the Borough of Nottingham (Nottingham, 1882), vol I, p.425, vol ii, pp.426–7; J. S. Roskell, The House of Commons, 1386–1421: Introductory survey. Appendices. Constituencies (1993)
- ↑ R. Thoroton, vol. 2, p. 231; Querneby perhaps a surname from the now deserted village of Quenby, Leics.
- ↑ S. Mastoris and S. Groves (eds.), Sherwood Forest in 1609: a Crown survey by Richard Bankes , Thoroton Society Record Series Volume XL (1997) pp.123–4; R. M. Butler, 'The Common Lands of the Borough of Nottingham', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 54 (1950), p. 45; J. A. Mills, Continuity and Change: The town, people and administration of Nottingham between c. 1400 and c. 1600 (unpublished PhD thesis, Nottingham, 2010) p. 65, map; Thomas Hawksley's 1845 map of the commons surrounding Nottingham: Nottm Local Studies Library, RR5/A20
- ↑ Nottingham Journal 14 November 1772
- ↑ Nottinghamshire Archives Office, EA 131/2/1: Basford Inclosure Award, 1797
- ↑ K. Brand, An Introduction to Mapperley Park (2nd edn., Nottingham, 1996), passim
- ↑ Nottingham Daily Express; 19 March 1903
- ↑ Brand (1996)
- ↑ T. Buck, Alexandra Park before 1900 (Nottingham, 1982), pp. 2–20
- ↑ G. Oldfield, The Illustrated History of Nottingham's Suburbs (Derby, 2012), pp. 79–81
- ↑ A. Stapleton, Old Mapperley(1902), p. 144
- ↑ D. Hunter, A History of the Coppice Nottingham (Nottingham, 1918)
- ↑ T. Fry, 'The General Lunatic Asylum, Nottingham, 1812–1902' in Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 102, (1998) pp. 113–124
- ↑ T. Fry, 'Mapperley Hospital: The Beginning and the End' in Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter, 97, pp. 21–22
- ↑ K. McLennan, St. Jude’s, Mapperley: centenary year 1977 (1977), p.33
- ↑ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/24492/pages/4698[permanent dead link]
- ↑ vide for example: J. O. Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1st ed., 1846–1847
- ↑ A. Stapleton, Old Mapperley... (Nottingham, 1902), p. 156
- ↑ The top of Private Road is at 416 feet (127 metres).
- ↑ K. C. Edwards (ed.), Nottingham and Its Region ( Nottingham,1966 ), p.294; J. A. Sheard &, D. Smith, Clay Stealers to St. Pancras Station: A History of Nottingham's Brick Makers (Nottingham, 2011)
- ↑ Mapperley Ridge transmitter page
- ↑ "City of Nottingham ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ↑ "Timetables & Services".
- ↑ Minibus & Coaches
External links
- Nottingham City Transport
- "Mapperley History". Archived from the original on 4 January 2007.
- Mapperley Park
- Mapperley-Park.net
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