Commercial centre of Mapplewell, with depots and a large bakery. Most of these buildings date to around the 1960s and are built on former terraces and courtyard buildings which would have been part of the historic core of the town. Mapplewell was a medieval settlement and is know from as early as 1190-1210 (Smith 1961, 317). Based on morphological evidence this is a likely place for the medieval settlement; historic maps show long narrow plots running perpendicular to Towngate. There is fragmentary legibility of the 18th/19th century settlement as some building remain but there is no legibility of the medieval settlement.