Plumpton Park (Bolton-by-Bowland)

Locality
Coordinate	53.946354, -2.326829
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	c. 600 m N of Bolton-by-Bowland
Type	Area
Interest	Literary locale
Status	Defunct
First Record	c. 1500

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Plumpton Park, an area (a field or close?) c. 600 m N. of Bolton-by-Bowland.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-01. 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. Plumpton Park is listed in an 1840 MS tithe award as the name of a field c. 600 meters north of Bolton-by-Bowland. The locality is not labelled or indicated on any of the O.S. maps listed below.

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

• 1840 Tithe award for Nolton-by-Bowland, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 43, sub-piece 341, Image 060 (£)
• accompanying map, online at the [1], Piece 43, sub-piece 341, Sub-Image 001 (£).

Printed sources

• A Gest of Robyn Hode', st. 357.

Maps

Maps of area. Plumpton Park not indicated or labelled.

• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXV.12 (1894; surveyed 1893)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXV.12 (1909; rev. 1907)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXV.12 (1909; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 165 (1850; surveyed 1847)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXV (1896; surveyed 1892-93)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXV.SE (1910; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXV.SE (1910; rev. 1907) (georeferenced).

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