Plumpton Park (Shafton, Barnsley)

Locality
Coordinate	53.584164, -1.401951
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	c. 1.3 km SSW of Shafton, Barnsley
Type	Area
Interest	Literary locale
Status	Defunct
First Record	c. 1500

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Plumpton Park, (formerly?) a field-name in the vicinity of Shafton.

Right behind the gate is the area once known as Plumpton Park. You could take the bus, get off at the bus stop, jump the gate and take a photo. If you ever do, please mail it to me.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-08. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-17.

In the Gest, King Edward is exasperated at noticing the scarcity of deer in Plumpton Park after Robin and his men have been poaching there during their stay with the knight. We should almost certainly take this to be in Lancashire, but it could just possibly be some place King Edward is meant to have visited after his progress in Lancashire. According to A. H. Smith, Plumpton Park is listed in an 1841 MS Tithe Award as a field name near Shafton, which is c. 11.5 km SW of Wentbridge.

With the aid of the MS tithe award and accompanying map, a georeferenced 6" O.S. map of the area online at NLS, and Google Maps, it is possible to establish the coordinates of this locality fairly accurately. It is shown on 6" O.S. maps of Shafton from the period 1894-1948 as an L-shaped area on the west side of Engine Lane (A6195), c. 1.3 km SSW of central Shafton. The tithe award lists the land as arable, its owner as Savile Foljambe, its occupier as John Robinson.

Quotations

[Gest; c. 1500:]
All the passe of Lancasshyre
He went both ferre and nere
Tyll he came to Plomton Parke
He faylyd many of his dere.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

MS sources

• Tithe award for Shafton, online at the Genealogist, Piece 43, sub-piece 71, Sub-Image 003 (£)
• Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 43, sub-piece 71, Image 357 (£); Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. 1, p. 273, refers to this as: MS Tithe Award 71 (1841).

Printed sources

• Gest of Robyn Hode, st. 357.
• Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. 1, p. 273.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXIII.SW (1894; surveyed 1891)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXIII.SW (1907; rev. 1904)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXIII.SW (1907; rev. 1904) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXIII.SW (1933; rev. 1929-30)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXIII.SW (1946; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXIII.SW (1949; rev. 1948).

Also see

• Places named Plumpton Park
• Place-names in Gest of Robyn Hode
• Gest of Robyn Hode.

Notes

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names