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Mapperley, Nottingham — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sherwood, Thorneywood and Gedling ring Mapperley, entered in the record as a residential and commercial suburb of Nottingham.
About Mapperley
Where to stay in Mapperley
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Nottingham holds the hotel stock. Mapperley reads as somewhere to live rather than somewhere to book, and a stay out here earns its keep mainly for people with business in Gedling or family around Sherwood, both of which sit on its boundary. St Jude's Church is the name the register gives it.
Beyond that the streets run on into Thorneywood and Porchester without much ceremony.
About Mapperley
What are the main landmarks in Mapperley?
Parish churches make up the whole roll. St Jude's Church carries Mapperley's own entry, while the neighbouring parishes supply St Martin's Church in Sherwood and the Parish Church of St James at Porchester, all three within reach of the same set of streets. Those three exhaust Mapperley's entries.
A visitor coming out from Nottingham finds a working suburb rather than a monument, with Gedling and Thorneywood continuing that pattern past the boundary.
What is the history of Mapperley?
Mapperley's dated past is not written down here. What the record carries instead is a shape, a suburb of Nottingham that spread until it touched Sherwood, Thorneywood and Gedling, folding each boundary into the ordinary business of a city edge. The churches supply the dates.
St Jude's Church, St Martin's Church at Sherwood and the Parish Church of St James at Porchester are the buildings through which a parish history could be read.
Where is Mapperley?
Mapperley runs out to meet Sherwood, Thorneywood and Gedling, three boundaries that fix the suburb's edges within Nottingham.
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Updated September 2026