Chapelton, Jamaica - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Chapelton is a market town

Market town

Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city...

in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica

Clarendon Parish, Jamaica

Clarendon is a parish in Jamaica. It is located on the south of the island, roughly half-way between the island's eastern and western ends...

and the former parish capital.

Name

According to a long time resident:

Amenities

Clarendon College
Clarendon College (Jamaica)
Clarendon College is a high school in the town of Chapelton in northern Clarendon, Jamaica. It is the oldest school in the parish. It was founded by the Rev. Lester Davy on February 2, 1942....

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

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

Brown's Town

Brown's Town is one of the principal towns in St. Ann, Jamaica. In 1991, its population was 6762. The town is a market and road center in an agricultural region.-Geography:...

Rail

From 1925 to 1974 Chapelton was served by Chapelton railway station on the 21 mile railway branch line

Railways of Jamaica: May Pen to Frankfield

The May Pen to Frankfield line was built to serve the fast developing citrus industry in the upper Clarendon regions of Chapelton and Frankfield.All external links below are to WikiMapia.-Inception:...

from May Pen

May Pen

May Pen is the capital and largest town in the parish of Clarendon in the Middlesex County, Jamaica. It is located on the Rio Minho river , and is a major market centre for the Parish...

to Frankfield

Frankfield

Frankfield is a town in Clarendon in central Jamaica. It is located near the top of Jamaica's central ridge of mountains overlooking the south coast...

Notable people from Chapelton

Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson is a UK-based dub poet. He became the second living poet, and the only black poet, to be published in the Penguin Classics series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British...
Raphael Morgan
Raphael Morgan
Very Rev. Raphael Morgan was a Jamaican-American priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, designated as "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies, later the founder and superior of the Order of the Cross of Golgotha, and thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America.He spoke...

(Robert Josias Morgan)

External links

MSN Map

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.