Battle of Mapperley Hills 1842
Marker: recorded battle location (no official boundary).
Key facts
| Date (year) | 1842 | Wikidata P585 point in time |
|---|---|---|
| Century | 19th century | derived |
| Period | Jacobite & later | derived |
| Country | England | derived |
About the battle
The Battle of Mapperley Hills was an incident on Tuesday 23 August 1842, which marked the culmination of several days of Chartist disturbances in the Nottingham area. Troops and police broke up an assembly of about five thousand people and arrested four hundred when they refused to disperse. The site of the assembly and "the battle" may have been in Mapperley Hills Common, close to where Ransom Road (formerly Coppice Road) meets Woodborough Road. The Common, of 54 acres, and the adjoining Coppice of the Hunger Hills (124 acres) were open to the inhabitants of Nottingham, but owned by Nottingham Corporation as lord of the manor.
The term "battle" may have been popularised by a long poem about the event, which appeared in the Nottingham Review a month later on 23 September. The poem, called "The Battle of Mapperley Hills", while pouring scorn on the authorities and the militia, was, ironically prefaced; 'is respectfully dedicated to the Magistrates ...'
The disturbances began on Thursday 18 August when a resolution to cease work "until the document known as the People's Charter of 1838 became the law of the land" was adopted in Nottingham Market Place by a meeting of more than two…
Visiting the battlefield
Location
- Recorded location (Wikidata; may be approximate): 52.9762, -1.1357
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