Plumpton Park (Baddington)

Locality
Coordinate	Near 53.051399, -2.525177
Adm. div.	Cheshire
Vicinity	Immediately south of Nantwich
Type	Area
Interest	Miscellaneous
Status	Defunct?
First Record	1841

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Shrewbridge House, near which Plumpton Park was located.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-03-03.

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. As Cheshire is a neighbouring county it is conceivable that a Plumpton Park in that county may have been intended.

J. M. Dodgson in the English Place-Name Society's third volume on Chester, notes a 'Plumpton Park' near Shrewbridge House, slightly south of Nantwich. His source is the 1841 tithe award for the township of Baddington in the parish of Aston, in which the plot is listed as No. 8, with the Right Honorable Francis Jack Kilmorey as landowner, Peter Cornes as occupier, 'Meadow' as state of cultivation, and an area of 3 acres and 34 perches (13000.53 m²). Turning southeast from Shrewbridge Road, one has a c. 250 metres long field on one's right (southwest); a c. 55 metres wide strip of this field along the lane was a separate plot known as Plumpton Park in the mid-19th century. See adapted map detail included in the image gallery below.

Quotations

[Gest; c. 1500:]
All the passe of Lancasshyre
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

• 1841 tithe award for the township of Baddington in the parish of Aston, online at the Genealogist, piece 05, sub-piece 033, image 007, #8 (£)
• accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, piece 05, sub-piece 033, sub-image 001, #8 (£).

Printed sources

• A Gest of Robyn Hode, st. 357
• Dodgson, John McN.; Rumble, Alexander R. The Place-Names of Cheshire, pts. I-V (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIV-XLVIII, LIV, LXXIV) (Cambridge, 1970-72; [s.l.], 1981; Nottingham, 1997), vol. III, p. 132.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Cheshire LXII.1 (c. 1877; surveyed c. 1874). No copy in NLS]
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire LXII.1 (1898; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire LXII.1 (1898; rev. 1897)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire LXII.1 (1909; rev. 1908)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire LXII (1882; surveyed 1875–76)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire LXII.NW (1899; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire LXII.NW (1899; rev. 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire LXII.NW (1912; rev. 1908)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire LXII.NW (c. 1946; rev. 1938).

Also see

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

Notes

 Cheshire place-names 

 Place-names 

Image gallery

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  (The former?) Plumpton Park is behind the hedge / Google Earth Street View.

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  Coole Lane / Row17, 28 Apr. 2011; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  Plumpton Park indicated in maroon / Detail of 6" O.S. map Cheshire LXII (1882; surveyed 1875–76); reprod. with perm. of NLS; under Creative Commons Attrib. (CC-BY) license; adapt. Henrik Thiil Nielsen.