Mapperton
| Mapperton | |||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 ′ N , 2 ° 42 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 60 (as of 2013) | ||
| surface | 3.3 km² (1.27 mi² ) | ||
| Population density: | 18 inhabitants per km² | ||
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| Post town | Beaminster | ||
| ZIP code section | DT8 | ||
| prefix | 01308 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| Ceremonial county | Dorset | ||
| Unitary authority | Dorset | ||
| Civil Parish | Mapperton | ||
| British Parliament | West Dorset | ||
| Website: http://www.beaminster.net/ | |||
Mapperton is a civil parish in Dorset , England , consisting of a hamlet of the same name and a few outlying settlements. It is located about three kilometers southeast of Beaminster , with which it forms a statistical unit in censuses. The district covers 331.5 hectares , the population is, 2013 estimate, around 60. Due to its small size, there is no local council in Mapperton, instead parish meetings are held if necessary.
location
The hamlet of Mapperton consists of the stately Mapperton House with its garden, the All Saints Church , the rectory (Refectory) and a few other buildings. There are also four separate living spaces in the district : Mapperton Farm in the west, Holeacre Farm and Coltleigh Farm in the east and the single house Coltleigh Hill in the northeast. Another small settlement in the extreme south, Mythe, where eight houses were counted on the occasion of the 1841 census and two still existed in 1952, has fallen into desolation today, ruins of the former cottages are still there.
The southeastern border of the district forms the Mangerton River, which drains over the Asker and Brit to the English Channel . To the northwest, the district initially rises sharply from here, it essentially consists of several small, flat, undulating plateaus at an altitude of around 140 meters, which are divided by tributaries of the Mangerton River. On its slopes, on those of Coltleigh Hill in the north as well as in the extreme east and northeast of the district, there is forest. Their management is widespread in the form of coppicing , a traditional type of English forest use, which is based on the ability of certain tree species to erode . Overall, however, the proportion of forest in the municipal area is small, the vast majority is used for agriculture.
Mapperton borders the boroughs of Beaminster, Corscombe, Hooke, Netherbury and North Portoon. The highest point is Coltleigh Hill at 218 meters, the lowest is the point where the Mangerton River leaves the district in a southerly direction at around 50 meters above sea level. The drainage occurs almost entirely over the Brit to the south-west, only in the extreme north, where the district borders on the Pipsford Farm, it runs over the Hooke River , a tributary of the Frome , to the south-east.
history
The Domesday Book mentions two places associated with Mapperton: Malperetone with nineteen and Maperetone with three households. The larger of the two is the actual Mapperton, the smaller one refers to the scattered courtyards north of the settlement, which today belong to Beaminster, and accordingly a distinction was made between North Mapperton and South Mapperton . All the name variants come from Old English mapuldor and are derived from, which means: homestead on which maple trees grow .
The small hamlet did not have its own cemetery, the dead were instead buried in Netherbury to the west. After a local plague outbreak in Mapperton, presumably 1582, with corresponding victims, the citizens of Netherbury refused to bury those of Mapperton in their graveyard. Instead, they were buried in a pit far outside Netherbury on the edge of South Warren Hill. During plowing work it can still happen that human bones are brought to the light of day.
At the point where the path to Netherbury, known as Dead Man's Lane , branches off from the main road, there was an old tree called Posy Tree , which was reminiscent of this constellation , until 2011 . A posy is a small bouquet of flowers worn by mourners who pass by, it should protect them from infection and mask the smell of the dead.
Around the middle of the 19th century, the district in the north was reduced, the part on which the Coombe Farm and the later estate cottages together with the former school are now part of Beaminster. In terms of address, however, like the Marsh Farm located further north and also belonging to Beaminster, they are listed under Mapperton.
literature
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1, West, London 1952, pp. 153-156. Digitized on the British History Online website. (English)
Web links
- Mapperton at opcdorset.org
- Mapperton, Dorset at visionofbritain.org (English)
- Map server on the county administration's website showing the boundaries and query options, including areas and addresses (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population figures Beaminster 2011 in the Neighborhood Statistics on the website of the National Bureau of Statistics, accessed on January 17, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Parish Population Data on the county government website, accessed January 15, 2016.
- ^ Parish and town councils in West Dorset on the county government website, accessed January 15, 2016
- ↑ a b c Photographs by Mapperton with explanations on the website of opcdorset.org, accessed on January 17, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Mapperton in the database of the British Ordnance Survey , accessed on January 17, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Mapperton at Opendomesday.org, accessed on January 17, 2016 (English)
- ^ Anthony David Mills: A Dictionary of British Placenames . Oxford 2011, p. 317, ISBN 019960908X , preview on Google Books, accessed January 17, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Compare the northern border on the map from 1830 with the northern border on the 25-inch map of the Ordnance Survey, sheet Dorset XXIX.7. from 1889. Digitized on the map server of the National Library of Scotland, accessed on January 17, 2016.