The Shipley Estate - Studies in History

Chapter 4 - The Manor of Mapperley, Domesday to 1600 AD

Brian Taylor

The total land area of the modern Parish of Mapperley is 981 acres, or under two square miles. Prior to 1870, Mapperley was a detached part of the ancient Parish of Kirk Hallam and, thus, some records may appear under Kirk Hallam without separate reference to Mapperley. Much of the western half of the Parish is known as Park Hall.

The history of land holdings in Mapperley gives an interesting contrast to the neighbouring Shipley Parish, which after the early merging of the two Saxon Manors remained as a single estate from 1284 to 1922. Mapperley Parish, however, was divided in 1154 and remained a patchwork from then on.

The maps which accompany the text are "informed guesses" based on sources given in the text and should not be taken as definitive evidence of land tenure for legal purposes.

Domesday, 1086

Before the Conquest, Staplewin had four bovates (perhaps 64 acres) of taxable land, valued at 16 shillings.

Mapperley was a single Manor held by the King and part of the Fee of William Peverel. A small block of land, half a carucate (60-70 acres), belonged to Spondon, a manor of Henry of Ferrers. Peverel's land was made up of Waste; Meadow, 1/2 acre; and woodland pasture 4 furlongs long and four wide (0.25 square miles, 160 acres).

Splitting of the Manor

On the death of King Stephen, 1154 AD, the Peverel family, who had rebelled, were stripped of their lands and Mapperley reverted to the Crown. Under King Henry II, the Peverel lands, or most of them, then were held by Ralph, son of Ingram, Lord of Norton and Alfreton, Sheriff of Nottingham and Derby from 1155 to 1163.

King John, who reigned from 1199 to 1216, seems to have used Mapperley to reward his supporters but either the Manor was not bestowed as a single holding or else it soon became divided. What may have happened was that some of the Knight's Fees had been given to the Barony of Burun, whose last male heir, Baron Roger de Burun, died in the late 12th Century. King John bestowed the barony on William Briewer (also spelt de Briwer, Briewerre, or Brewer, or de Barewe), who paid Scutage for the Honour of Burun in 1206. William Briewer was Sheriff of Nottingham and Derby from 1195 to 1212. In 1224, William Briewer Senior and Junior are recorded in the Pipe Roll and the elder William died in 1239.

Roger de Burun's sister Aelina (Aalina or Adelina) was married to Peter de (of) Sandiacre and, thus, the Sandiacre family was able to secure some of the Burun lands. Peter de Sandiacre is recorded as having paid 20 marks for the fees of Roger de Burun in 1199. King John, however, forced Peter de Sandiacre to accept certain land exchanges, such as Horsley (Harestan, Horston) Castle, the seat of the Barony, for lesser lands in Litchurch and, perhaps, Mapperley. Certainly, the Feodary of 1243 recorded that Peter's descendant, Sir Richard de Sandiacre, had held the whole vill of Mapperley from the King in exchange for (or by the service of) providing kennels for a pack of hounds although by that time it was held by others (see below).

Another division of the Peverel lands was that given to the Morteyn family (in some records they appear as Morton). In 1196, Eustace de Morteyn paid 100 shillings for the Honour of Peverel. Nearly a century later, a charter relating to Mapperley had as its principal witness "Dominus Roger de Morteyn, tunc Dominus de Maperlay" (Lord Roger Morteyn, Lord of Mapperley).

The foregoing illustrates that the story of Mapperley is not a simple one but the evidence is that, at least after the ownership by the Sandiacre family, there was a division of the Township, or vill, into the following land areas.

The Manor of Mapperley

A Court Roll of the Manor of Mapurley, dated 1405-7, is for the Court of Sir Edmund de Willoughby, of the Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, branch of the family. In 1408, a Great Court was held by Sir John Dabriggecourt. Most probably, these men held the courts on behalf of the King, as the main Lord of the Manor, and they did not actually hold the lordship themselves.

The Exchequer Records for 1431 listed two freeholders for "Mapurley", one was Sir Robert Strelley of Strelley and the other was Hugh Morteyn of Mapperley, gentleman. After around 1200, the main bulk of the Parish seems to have devolved through these two families until finally, in 1547, it was merged again. Two other families, the Ingrams and the Vavasours play lesser roles.

The Strelley Family

The most notable of the early land-holders in Mapperley was Hugh of Strelley (Hugonis de Streleg') who, with his wife Matilda de Jorz, received permission, in 1224-58, from Alexander Stavensby, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to set up a private chapel in the manor house at Mapperley; subject to the safeguarding of the rights of Henry the vicar of Kirk Hallam and the canons of Dale, as patrons of the parish. It was to be a purely personal chapel for Hugh and Matilda and their family and they were urged still to try to attend the mother church at Kirk Hallam. Conjecturally, the remains of that chapel still exist as part of a building in the centre of Mapperley Village.

Hugh, also known as Hugh de Wermundesworth (perhaps meaning "of Warmsworth"), is believed to have been the third son of Lord Sampson of Strelley in Nottinghamshire. He was recorded as a witness to a Rufford Abbey Charter in the company of Philip de Strelley (thought to be the second son of Sampson), Robert le Vavasour and Eustace de Morteyn. Hugh held land in Kirk Hallam and Sandiacre, which Sir Richard de Sandiacre had sold to him before 1237; as the Feodary for that year records "Hugh de Strelley holds 15 acres (of the serjeanty of Sandiacre)". Numerous land grants are recorded involving Sir Richard and it seems clear that the Sandiacre family was in financial trouble, as his son, John, finally sold the family home at Sandiacre to William de Grey.

After Hugh's death in 1254-5, it looks as if his sons, Nicholas de Strelley and Roger, preferred not to live at Mapperley as, in 1255, Nicholas, whose wife was Joanna, granted one messuage (main farmhouse) and one ploughland (about 120 acres) in Mapperley to Robert le Vavasour of Shipley. Curiously, the Feodary of 1243 (referred to above) had stated that Robert le Vavasour and many others were "enfeoffed of this" (the vill), which confuses the picture of ownership. Not long after, in 1259, Robert's son, William le Vavasour, and Matilda de Strelley were involved in a release of land to William by Matilda of 40 acres of land "and that messuage held by her of William in the same bill as dower". This suggests that Matilda, the widow of Hugh de Strelley, was marrying William. The actual land and messuage was granted to Thomas de Quappelode, William's attorney, for an annual rent of four shillings. A contemporary record names a Matilda de Sypele (Shipley?) as once holding land in Alsop.

Nicholas de Strelley is named in various documents as "de Wermundesworth" and as "de Breydeston" (Breaston, in southeast Derbyshire). Martin de Wermundesworth, Nicholas' son, who is never referred to by the name "de Strelley", is not recorded as holding land in Mapperley. He had land at Wilsthorp (Wylvelsthorp), near Breaston, but this ended, presumably due to his death, by 1346 and there is no record of his having any heirs.

The Vavasour Family

The Vavasour family held Shipley as their main estate and it had been their home since around 1150. William le Vavasour and Matilda seem to have had three children. Their son, Adam, inherited Shipley in 1264 but died in 1268-9. The inheritance passed to his sisters, Elizabeth and Anne (or Annora). What happened to Anne is not known but Elizabeth Vavasour married Sir Robert Strelley of Strelley, the grandson of Walter de Strelley, the eldest brother of Hugh. This marriage joined the Shipley and Mapperley under the already powerful Strelley family.

The Ingram Family

The agreement between William le Vavasour and Matilda has a footnote stating that "Robert, son of John Ingeram, of Nottingham, puts in his claim". The year earlier, 1258, the Ingram family (Ingeram, Ingerham) had registered a Fine in which the same Robert, son of John Ingram, was granted 21 shillings rents held in Mapperley by William, son of Robert's uncle, also named Robert Ingram. The Fine also included other lands held in fee of the Earl of Ferrers. This appears to have been the lands under Spondon which were recorded in Domesday.

Earlier (Chapter 3) the family of Walkelin and Goda was mentioned as being associated with the de Ferrers family, the earls of Derby, in the founding of Darley Abbey. A second family, that of "Hugh the Dean", was similarly involved. Hugh the Dean's granddaughter, Lady Eustacia, had married Peter Ingram in the early 15th century. The Ingram family were from Nottingham and this marriage brought them land in Derby. Peter's sons Peter, also known as Swyft of Derby, and John, also known as John de la Cornere, were burgesses of Derby and are described as descendants of Hugh, dean of Derby. John Ingram had three children Robert, John and Matilda. So, it seems highly likely, as Robert had a claim on Matilda de Strelley's land, that Matilda was his sister and that she married three times; first, to a member of the de Jorz family, then to Hugh de Strelley and, last, to William le Vavasour. The story of land passing from the King to the de Ferrers family, then to the Ingrams, to the Strelleys and on to the Vavasours is quite typical of the intricate routes of land acquisition and of the importance of strategic marriages to the great families of England.

The Strelley family again

Over the next three centuries, members of the Strelley family appear in the records as holding land in Mapperley. For instance, at an Inquisition on the death of William la Zouche, in 1381, Sir Robert Strelley, the great-great-grandson of the Sir Robert who married Elizabeth Vavasour, was recorded as living at Mapperley, with a freehold house worth 20 shillings per annum. The Feudal Aids for 1451 list the same Sir Robert Strelley (or given the dates, his son, also Robert), by now holder of the Strelley title, as having freehold in Mapurley, together with Hugh Morteyn of Mapurley. By 1441, John Strelley, esquire, had a charter for free warren in Shipley, Bilborough, Mapperley, Strelley, TrowelI and 0xton but, in 1496, he granted "Mapurley", together with Shipley and Langley in Derbyshire and many Nottinghamshire lands, to Henry Willoughby, Gervase Clifton and others (this probably was a grant for mortgage purposes).

The Morteyn Family

Earlier it was noted that Eustace de Morteyn paid 100 shillings for the Honour of Peverel in 1199. He died in 1223 and was succeeded by his son, also named Eustace. Then, in 1259, William de Morteyn succeeded Eustace. In the middle to late 13th Century, Sir William de Morteyn was a co-landowner in Trowell, Notts., with Robert de Strelley, son of Walter de Strelley. He also was the overlord of Stanton and a contemporary of William de Sandiacre.

During the reign of Edward I (1272-1307), a charter concerning lands in Mapperley bears, as its principal witness, the name of "Dominus Roger de Morteyn, tunc Dominus of Maperlay" (Lord Roger de Morteyn, Lord of Mapperley). Presumably, Roger had succeeded William, who had died in 1267-6. In I302, Eustace son and heir of Robert de Morteyn had to pay relief for his lands.

We have already seen that the Exchequer records, or Feudal Aids, survey for the Crown in 1431 records Hugh Morteyn "of Mapperley" as having a freeholding in Mapperley. The only other freeholder listed was Sir Robert Strelley of Strelley, the great-great-grandson of the Sir Robert who married Elizabeth Vavasour.

William Morton of Mapperley, gent, and Alice, his wife, and Margaret Twyford sold land in Kirkelongley in 1457 but this was land of the inheritance of Alice.

In 1496 a Fine is recorded which tells of the sale of "the manor of Mapurley and 6 messuages, 5 tofts, 200 acres land, 40 acres meadow, 240 acres pasture, 50 acres woodland and 4 marks rent in Mapurley and Brayston" by Robert Morten and Alice, his wife, and John Morten and Margery, his wife, to George, Earl of Shrewsbury, Edward Hastings, Kt. lord Hastings, and Christopher Ursewyk, clerk.

Curiously, a land release dated 1507, has the names of Robert Morten of le Parkhalle, gent., and John Morten of Maperley, gent., among its witnesses.

Joining of the Morteyn and Strelley lands

In 1547, the former Morteyn lands "lying in the Lordship of Park Hall and Mapperley" were exchanged by Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury, for lands "within the town and fields of Sheffield" held by Sir Nicholas Strelley. Thus, the Morteyn and Strelley lands were merged.

A survey of the Desmesne lands of Parke Hall, then owned by Sir Anthony Strelley but in the use of his son, Mr. Philip Strelley, was conducted in about 1590. Items listed for Parke Hall included the Manor House with a court, orchard and garden (value 40 shillings), the Great House (value £13.6.8d), 17 fields and one cottage house with two crofts. Rents were received from properties in Mapperley; being the Head Houses, Alexander Eaton, Irelande house, Smith's house, Black's house, Widow Massey, George Wheatley, the Chappell and Chappell Yards, and four closes. Other closes giving rents were Mapperley Parke and three Simon Fields.

The Great Hatchmore, held by William Angreave and called Angreaves Close in the 1590's rent list, had been given to Philip Strelley by Sir Henry Sacheverell, of Kidsley, in exchanqe for certain Shipley lands (see Cotgrave below).

The Mapperley Family holding

In the year 1382, a man named Thomas del Holt (of Mapperley) was a Bailiff of the City of Nottingham. Then, between the years 1395 and 1413, a Thomas Mapperley is recorded as one of the Burgesses of Nottingham and later, in 1477, John Mapully, was a Burgess. The Mapperley family were a wealthy merchant family in Nottingham, dealing in wool or stapIe, with a house on the south side of St. Mary's Church. The family, however, would seem to have originated in the Derbyshire village of Mapperley as, in 1507-8, John Mapperley (Mappurley, Mapurley, Maperley), of Bulwell, Notts., sold three lots of land in Mapperley, county Derby. The first was 60 acres of land known as Crowmore Closes and Wylk Ryddyng, sold for £20 to Sir Henry Willoughby of Wollaton. The second was two oxgangs of land, also to Sir Henry Willoughby, for £6/6.8d, and the third was one close called Burton Close (the detached western area on the map, right) and two oxgangs of land to Sir Edward Stanhope.

In the mid-1500s, the land owned by the Willoughbys of Wollaton was variously leased out by Hugh Willoughby. Hugh, later Sir Hugh "the Navigator" who died trying to find the north-west passage, was a younger son of Sir Henry and was married to Jane Strelley, daughter of Sir Nicholas Strelley (the nephew and inheritor of the title of the earlier mentioned John Strelley).

The part of it known as "a messuage called Headhouses" was leased to Henry Wood (Wodde) of Cossall, Notts., with his wife Sanchia and daughter Anne, in 1541. The lease was for life for the sum of £7. Henry Wood "of Maperley, husbandman" was a witness in a court case of 1585 on behalf of the Willoughby family. Another witness in the case was Alexander Heaton "of Maperley, gentleman, of 70 yeres or thereabouts", who appears (as Alexander Eaton) also in the Strelley rent list of that era (the field is named as the Risley Land).

In 1551-52, Sir Hugh gave 21 year leases to other parts to Richard Paler, youngest son of Richard Paler, who was already occupying the messuage and lands, for £3/6/8d; and to Robert Gregory of Mapperley and Elizabeth, his wife, this being at the end of a lease to Edmund Fideler and his wife.

The Stanhope family, who were contemporary residents of Nottingham with the Willoughbys of Wollaton and the Strelleys, held their land in Mapperley until well into the seventeenth century.

Cotgreave (or Cotgrave; see also above, Ingram family)

At the northwest corner of Mapperley Parish lies, or rather used to lie before the modern open-cast mining, the farm known as Cotgreave. Anciently, the names Cotegrave and Cotgrave also were used.

The earliest appearance of the name was when, in 1156, Havise de Cotgrave was excused payment of a rent to the King of 6 shillings and six pence.

Next, in 1185, Roger, son of William, de Cotgrave was named as entering a new plea in the Pipe Roll. It may be that this man, Roger, fell foul of the authorities as the Pipe Roll for 1222 relates that Roger de Mapley was a fugitive.

In 1225, Hugh de Strelley registered a Plea of the Forest for land in Cotgrave but the next year he was sued by Robert son of Geoffrey and Robert son of Robert. The latter men seem likely to have been members of the Ingram family. Then in 1232 the Pipe Roll lists Ralph son of Ralph de Cotegrave.

The actual ownership of the farm then may have passed to the Briwer family, as in 1269 Geoffrey de Briwer and his wife Avice granted 'Cotegrave' to John de Grey, holder of the Lordship of Codnor; its value was a rent of 10 shillings with appurtenances. The de Grey family continued to hold land in Kirk HalIam, quite probably actually the land in Mapperley, at least until 1431. This junior branch of the de Grey's was resident at Sandiacre (William de Grey having bought that Manor from John de Sandiacre around 1260) and successive recorded members were; Richard de Grey in 1302, William de Grey in 1346, and John de Grey (or rather his widow Emma Grey of Landeford in Notts.) in 1431.

The farm seems to have been rented out as; first, in 1299, Henry de Cotgrave and Alice his wife (one of the daughters and heirs of Wiverton) appear in the Pipe Roll; and then, in 1311, a person named Warchin de Cotgrave is recorded as the guardian for a couple holding land in Littelhalum.

At some point, Cotgreave, or at least part of it, was in the hands of the Sacheverell family of Kidsley in Smalley. In the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1605) Sir Henry Sacheverell complained in Chancery that he had given a close called Great Hatchmore in the lordship of Mapperley to Sir Philip Strelley, under an agreement transferring land in Shipley to the Kidsley estate.

Darley Abbey lands

Early in the 15th Century, Darley Abbey was bequeathed a rent of 5 shillings and 11 pence annually at Mapperley by a Master Henry of Derby. His nephew, William de Aula, son of Peter of Derby, confirmed this rent which came from 40 acres and 7 roods of land. The rent was to be paid "by those who hold the said land". Master Henry was a member of a large family descended from a couple known as Walkelin and Goda of Derby. Walkelin was known also as "the moneyer" and he operated a mint in Derby for King Stephen and perhaps for Stephen's successor, Henry II. Goda is recorded as having bought land in Derby, which she then gave to Darley Abbey, from Peter de Sandiacre. Perhaps, Master Henry's land was an inheritance from a similar purchase by Goda from Peter de Sandiacre.

In his history of Derbyshire, Woolley recorded Darley as holding land in Mapperley and Smalley, the Parish immediately to the north-west, in the reign of Edward IV (1461-85). After the dissolution of the monasteries, the Darley lands in Smalley and some of those in Mapperley were acquired in 1546 from the King by the Paget family. They sold the western portion to Dr. Christopher Johnson in 1578. After his death, his executors sold it to Thomas Ashton, who, in turn, sold it to the Richardson family of Smalley, in 1610. The other (eastern) lands in Mapperley seem to have been acquired by the Poutrell family of West Hallam (see below).

Dale Abbey lands

During the 15th century. Dale Abbey was granted two bovates of land (around 50 acres) with assarts (woodland clearings) in Mapperley by William of Stanley. This had been granted to William by his brother Godfrey, having previously been the inheritanceof their mother Matilda.

The earlier land grant included two roods in "Weteland versus Maperlegh". The canons of Dale leased the land to Robert de Lameleg' (possibly Lambley, in Nottinghamshire, of the Honour of Peverel) and his wife, Isabella, but, some time between 1268 and 1275, she gave up the lease, reporting that she had lost the charter of enfeoffment in time of war (the Barons' Wars).

Some of the land was granted, by Laurence Teveray, abbot of Dale (1273-89), to William son of Richard of Smalley. This land, called "le Hay", consisted of 5 acres and 3 roods for an annual rent of sixpence. It is described as lying between the lands of Brictmarus le Sopare of Smalley on one side and Richard Rachel of Stanley on the other side and extending from the road which led from Shipley to Derby to the "Huttefalsike de Smalleye" (a sike or sick was the word for a stream so this must have been the stream between Mapperley and Shipley). One of the witnesses to this land grant was Lord Richard de Grey of Codnor.

A copy of the above deed was in the Middleton family deeds of 1799, whose ancestors were the Willoughby family. According to Woolley, the canons leased all their land to Sir Richard Willoughby of Risley before 1363. The Charter Rolls for 1327 record that Richard (Ricus) de Willoughby was granted free warren in Willoughby, Wollaton, Cossall and Ruddington (Notts.) and in Risley, Alvaston, Engleby and Mapperley (Derbys.). This was confirmed in 1531 by a Quo Warranto court. Sir Richard had acquired Risley by marrying Isabella de Morteyn.

The Willoughbys of Risley, as sitting tenants of the Abbey, were allowed to purchase the land after the dissolution of the monastery in 1558. This branch of the Willoughby family died out in 1605 but the Mapperley land passed to the main branch, then holders of Wollaton in Nottingham.

Other recorded land holders

1. Ivo of Mapperley (Ivone de Maperleg), who sold land in Kirk Hallam around 1260. He may have been Ivo de Heriz, whose first wife was Hawise Briwer, a kinswoman of William Briwer, the early owner of Cotgreave. The Pipe Roll for 1259 had recorded the name of William son of Amice de Mapperley and a court case between Ivo de Mapperley and Walter Petit of HalIam and Peter Horestan.

Around 1300, Richard, son of Ivo, sold the lands and houses which belonged to his father in Mapperley to Geoffrey de Herdeby (a part of Coxbench, Derbyshire) and Isabella, his wife. Among the witnesses were Nicholas de Henore and William, son of Avice de Mapperley (perhaps Amice and Avice are versions of Hawise Briwer).

Not long after (in the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307), Isabella, now widowed, released her lands in the vill and territory of Mapirleye to her son, William (witnessed by Roger de Morteyn, see above). On 15 January 1351, the same William had a grant from Roger of Billesdon of Herdby of all his messuages, lands &c, in the vill and fields of Maperley, with the remainder to Johanna, William's sister. The witnesses to this grant included Walter Otehede of Mapperley and Henry Otehede.

In Domesday, Herdebi was split between Ralph de Burun and Henry de Ferrers. In a 1267 charter, apparently reallocating some of the lands of Robert de Ferrars (which had been confiscated by the Crown after the Battle of Chesterfield, 1226), Herdebi is listed as one of the manors confirmed to William de Morteyn as being held by Robert de Strelley. These people "of Herdby", therefore, may well have been tenants of the de Ferrars and their successors, the Morteyns or the Strelleys.

2. Eudo of Mapperley (Eudonis de Maperleg), mentioned in a Dale charter, around 1265, concerning land in Stanton. He appears also as the brother of William of Heanor (William de Ennonere or de Henovere). The Pipe Roll for 1259 had recorded Eudo and Thomas "suies" (his man or his brother) as servants of Matilda de Strelley. There is evidence supporting Walkelin the moneyer as being of Heanor and, over the period 1150 to 1300, the descendants Walkelin and Goda feature in Heanor, Shipley, Langley, Oulegreve (Algrave Hall, Shipley) and Derby. Four years later, 1269, Eudo de Mapple paid an oblation to the King, which suggests he was a landholder at that time.

3. Thomas de Quappelode, the attorney for William le Vavasour in 1259, is mentioned above as having been granted the 40 acres with a messuage that Matilda de Strelley had held as dower for an annual rent of four shillings. He died in 1270-1, as his daughter Elen then paid a new oblation which was recorded in the Pipe RolI.

4. Simon de Aderne (or de Ardern) and his wife, Agnes, were granted a charter for "Maperley Manor, free warren, fair and markets" in 1266-7. The charter was typical of many such charters granted in that era to entrepeneurs seeking to establish a new market town. Perhaps the market idea was a failure because, in 1276, Simon and Agnes granted the "Manor of Maperleye with appurtenances" to Master Thomas de Luthe for £200, to be held of Simon and Agnes and the heirs of Agnes for a yearly rent of one pair of gilt spurs at Easter. Kerry, a late 19th Century local historian, suggested that Agnes was "the heiress of Mapperley". This was in a description of a court case concerning an attack on Simon de Aderne's manor at Mapperley led by Thomas Cromwell of West HalIam and in which one of the co-defendants was Geoffrey de Jorz of Radcliffe, presumably related in some way to Matilda de Jorz, wife, of Hugh de Strelley. The location of these lands is often assumed to be around the modern Park Hall farm but the actual "Mapperley Manor" may have been the lands on the southern side of the modern parish - known in 1600 as "Mapperley Park", see below.

Among the many descendants of Walkelin and Goda there are two possibilities; Simon le Palmer, who was the son of William de Aula, the donor of rent from land at Mapperley to Darley Abbey some years earlier; and the fact that Henry le Lorimer, Simon le Palmer's uncle, had married an Agnes, so perhaps they had a daughter named Agnes. A strategic marriage between cousins would link both possibilities.

Thomas de Luthe and, also mentioned in the land grant, his attorney, Simon, son of Walter de Luthe, cannot be traced before or after their being named in 1276. In that year the Hundred Rolls recorded that "Simon de Ardern made a waren at Maperley and Thomas de Lucke now holds the same vill with waren, by what right is unknown" and also that Mapperley, among other places, had a "(Furcas) gallows, assize of bread and ale, but they know not by what authority". There was a family named De Lu (de Luye, del Luy) who held land in Ripley and Pentrich during that era.

5. In 1401, John Poutrell (Pewetrell) of Mapperley and his wife, Joan, featured in a sale of land in Carsington. Prior to 1379, a John Poutrell, perhaps the same man, had held a mining lease in West Hallam from Sir Ralph de Cromwell.

Thomas Poutrell, Ralph Fitzherberd and William Poutrell purchased the manor of West Hallam (Westhalom) and an undefined amount of land in Mapperley from the heiresses of Sir Ralph Cromwell, of Cromwell, late lord of West Hallam; this was in 1477. This would seem to be part of the Darley Abbey lands because in 1673 an "annual rent of three shillings and eleven pence.... .reserved and issuing out of or for lands in Mapperley.... late paid by - Powdrell" were purchased by Sir John Benet; this is the same rent as was bequeathed to Darley Abbey in the 13th Century.

6. In 1594, the will of Humfrey Brownell, gent., of Clemens Lane, Middlesex, and Mapperley, Derbyshire, was probated. At present no more is known of this man.

Summary at 1596

A. The Strelley lands, all of Park Hall and Mapperley manors, had come into the hands; of the Strelley family after the 1547 agreement but land division, 'following the death of John Strelley, in 1501, with four heiresses meant that parcels of land were in the hands of different members of the family. Sir Nicholas Strelley, who featured in the 1547 agreement, actually held little of the original vast Strelley family estates. Strelley, together with parts of Shipley and Mapperley, was most of what he had inherited or reacquired from the vast estates that his uncle John had held.

B. Cotgreave is owned by Dr. Johnson, together with some of the former Darley Abbey fields. The other Darley Abbey fields were divided between the Poutrell family and the Strelley family.

C. The former Dale Abbey lands are held by the Willoughby family of Risley.

D. The Willoughby family of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, held part of the eastern end of the township. This was the Headhouses.

E. The Stanhope family held land at the western end of the township.

There is sufficient information from the 1590 rent list and the other land transactions described earlier, when taken in combination with the 19th century tithe map and a 1778 map of the Park Hall estate, to produce the accompanying map showing the field structure as it may well have been in 1600. the thicker black lines indicate the separate holdings in the later documents.

Some of the names have the following derivations - Flat = furlong (open field furrow length); Greave = grove; Hatch = a fenced piece of land; Close = an enclosure from open fields; Heaf = sheep pasture; Ridding = an assart, or clearing in wood or waste land for agriculture; Wylke = Wick? = a dairy farm; Crewe = Crow? = an enclosure for cattle.

[Basing the map upon a recent (1960's) map shows how the original, ancient field boundaries survived for at least 400 years and may even go back some 900 years. Sadly, the open-cast coal mining that followed the closure of the deep mines destroyed the ancient surface in much of the Parish, as has been the case with much, if not more, of Shipley]