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Revision as of 02:10, 30 January 2021

Locality
Coordinate 53.78588, -2.925831
Adm. div. Lancashire
Vicinity c. 850 m E of Little Plumpton; on S side of Preston New Road (A583) and W side of Fox Lane Ends (B5260)
Type Area
Interest Literary locale
Status Defunct?
First Record 1839
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(The site of) Plumpton Park.
This field was known as Plumpton Park in 1841 / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-30.

In 1839, a plot of pasture situated, in modern terms, immediately south of the buildings of Mere Farm, south of Preston New Road (A583) and west of Fox Lane Ends (B5260), was known as Plumpton Park. This area is c. 850 m east of Little Plumpton in the township of Westby-with-Plumptons.

'Plumpton Park' is the name in the Gest of Robyn Hode of an area in Wyresdale, where King Edward discovers to his chagrin that Robin Hood has severely depleted the stock of deer. This Plumpton Park is hardly identical with the close near Westby, but since various other localities than that in Wyresdale have been suggested as the intended locale, IRHB considers it of some interest to compile as full a list as possible of localities with this name. That the township in which the present Plumpton Park was (is?) situated is named Westby-with-Plumptons is due to its comprising, in addition to Westby, both a Great and a Little Plumpton. The township is situated roughly 10 km west of Woodplumpton.

The field name occurs in the 1839 tithe award for the township, the landowner being recorded as Thomas CLifton, Esq., the occupier as James Wilcock, its area as 2 acres, 1 rood and 33 perches (9940.09 m2), and the state of cultivation as pasture.[1] The contours of the field are indicated on the early O.S. maps listed below. See the adapted map detail in the image gallery below, where Plumpton Park is coloured maroon.


Gazetteers

MS sources

  • 1839 tithe award for the 'Township of Westby with Plumpton in the Parish of Kirkham', online at the Genealogist, piece 18, sub-piece 330, image 016, #722 (subscription required)
  • accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, piece 18, sub-piece 330, sub-image 001 (subscription required).

Maps

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Notes

  1. ↑ 1839 tithe award for the 'Township of Westby with Plumpton in the Parish of Kirkham', online at the Genealogist, piece 18, sub-piece 330, image 016, #722 (subscription required); accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, piece 18, sub-piece 330, sub-image 001 (subscription required).


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