Chapelton
Chapelton is a market town in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica and the former parish capital.
Chapelton
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Chapelton • Type — Market Town • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Jamaica • Subdivision Type1 — Parish • Subdivision Name1 — Clarendon • Elevation Ft — 715 • Population Footnotes —. • Population Est — 4559 • Pop Est As Of — 2009 • Time Zone1 — EST • Utc Offset1 — -5
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According to a longtime resident:
Amenities
Amenities
• Clarendon College, 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
Road
Chapelton is on the B3 road which climbs up from May Pen in the south, passes through the center of the town and continues north towards Brown's Town.
Rail
Rail
From 1925 to 1974 Chapelton was served by Chapelton railway station on the 21 mile railway branch line from May Pen to Frankfield.
Notable people from Chapelton
Notable people from Chapelton
• Illustration — Barrington Levy • Dennis Alcapone • Everton Blender • Toots Hibbert • Linton Kwesi Johnson • Barrington Levy • Freddie McGregor • Raphael Morgan (Robert Josias Morgan) • Levi Roots • Jah Shaka • Cocoa Tea
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The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Chapelton, Jamaica, revision 1374267490 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.World Gazetteer.
- 2.Chapelton - An Oral History , Myrel Elaine Moss (Sister Moss), golocaljamaica.com, 2003-01-01.
- 3., Picasa, 2009-01-03.
- 4.UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheets G & H, 1973.
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