Chapelton, Jamaica

Chapelton
Chapelton
Market Town
	Chapelton
	Coordinates: 18°04′58″N 77°16′01″W / 18.082691°N 77.2669959°W
Country	Jamaica
Parish	Clarendon
Elevation	218 m (715 ft)
Population .
• Estimate (2009)	4,559
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)

Chapelton is a market town in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica and the former parish capital.

Name[edit]

According to a longtime resident:^[2]

Back in the days of plantation slavery in Jamaica, the Chapleton locality was a plantocracy settlement. Instead of going to church in the capital May Pen, the plantation owners built a church in Chapleton where they worshiped. Local folk therefore talked about going to “the chapel in the town.” After a while, the town became known as Chapel Town but with the passing of time, the name became distorted and was shortened to become Chapelton.

Amenities[edit]

Clarendon College, secondary school.
Clarendon Hospital, built c1903, now a community Type 3 hospital.^[2]
Police Station.
St Paul's Anglican Church, founded over 300 years ago.^[3]

Transport[edit]

Road[edit]

Chapelton is on the B3 road which climbs up from May Pen in the south, passes through the center of the town and continues north towards Brown's Town.^[4]

Rail[edit]

From 1925 to 1974 Chapelton was served by Chapelton railway station on the 21 mile railway branch line from May Pen to Frankfield.^{[citation needed]}

Notable people from Chapelton[edit]

References[edit]

^ "World Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 5 January 2013.
^ ^a ^b Chapelton - An Oral History Archived 21 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Myrel Elaine Moss (Sister Moss), golocaljamaica.com, 2003-01-01.
^ Kathy Alison, Picasa, 2009-01-03.
^ UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheets G & H, 1973.

External links[edit]

Photos: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine [6] [7] [8] [9].

[wg-1] "World Gazetteer". Archived from the original on 5 January 2013.

[GoJa-2] Chapelton - An Oral History Archived 21 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Myrel Elaine Moss (Sister Moss), golocaljamaica.com, 2003-01-01.

[3] Kathy Alison, Picasa, 2009-01-03.

[G&H-4] UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheets G & H, 1973.

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