MAPPLETON, a hamlet and a parish in Skirlaugh district, E. R. Yorkshire. The hamlet lies on the coast, 3 miles SSE of Hornsea town and r. station. Acres, 1,226; of which 47 are water. Pop., 163. Houses, 32. The parish contains also the hamlet of Rowlstone, and part of the townships of Great Hatfield and CowdensAmbo; and its Post town is Hornsea, under Hull. Acres, 4,279; of which 79 are water. Real property of Mappleton and Rowlstone hamlets, £2,773. Pop. of the parish, 4 75. Houses, 95. The property. is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £87. * Patron, the Archdeacon of E. R. Yorkshire. The church is a neat edifice, with tower and spire; and contains, in a N chantry, a white marble altar-tomb to Judge Brough, who presided at the trial of Admiral Byng. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a Church school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))