Chapelton
—  Market Town  —
Chapelton
Coordinates: 18°04′58″N 77°16′01″W / 18.082691°N 77.2669959°W / 18.082691; -77.2669959Coordinates: 18°04′58″N 77°16′01″W / 18.082691°N 77.2669959°W / 18.082691; -77.2669959
Country	Jamaica
Parish	Clarendon
Elevation [1]	218 m (715 ft)
Population [2].
- Estimate (2009)	4,559
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)

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

[edit] Name

According to a long time resident:^[3]

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.

[edit] Amenities

• Clarendon College, secondary school.
• Clarendon Hospital, built c1903, now a community Type 3 hospital.^[3]
• Police Station.
• St Paul's Anglican Church, founded over 300 years ago.^[4]

[edit] Transport

[edit] Road

Chapelton is on the B3 road which climbs up from May Pen in the south, passes though the center of the town and continues north towards Brown's Town.^[5][6]

[edit] Rail

From 1925 to 1974 Chapelton was served by Chapelton railway station on the 21 mile railway branch line from May Pen to Frankfield.

[edit] Notable people from Chapelton

• Linton Kwesi Johnson
• Raphael Morgan (Robert Josias Morgan)

[edit] See also

• List of cities and towns in Jamaica

[edit] External links

• Aerial view.
• Photos: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9].
• Postmarks:

[edit] References

1. ^ FallingRain.com.
2. ^ World Gazetteer
3. ^ ^{a b} Chapelton - An Oral History, Myrel Elaine Moss (Sister Moss), golocaljamaica.com, 2003-01-01.
4. ^ Kathy Alison, Picasa, 2009-01-03.
5. ^ UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheets G & H, 1973.
6. ^ Aerial view of Chapelton town center.

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