Plumpton Park (Brailsford)

Locality
Coordinate	52.989875, -1.645573
Adm. div.	Derbyshire
Vicinity	c. 750 m NE of point at Yeldersley Lane where a road leads to Dam and Kismet Farms
Type	Area
Interest	Literary locale
Status	Defunct?
First Record	1837

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Part of a field here was formerly known as Plumpton Park.

Part of this field was formerly known as Plumpton Park / Google Earth Street View (click or tap to enlarge).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-06-09.

A close in Brailsford, located c. 750 m NE of the point at Yeldersley Lane where a road leads NE to Dam and Kismet Farms, was known as Plumpton Park in 1837.

Plumpton Park is also the name in the Gest of Robyn Hode of an area – probably near the home of the knight Sir Richard at the Lee – where King Edward discovers to his chagrin that Robin Hood has severely depleted the stock of deer. Though this latter Plumpton Park is most probably to be thought of as the locality in Lancashire, this is not entirely certain, and it seems best, therefore, to record all occurrences of the name.

The field name occurs in the tithe award for the parish of Brailsford, where the landowner is recorded as 'Ferrers', i.e. Washington Shirley, 8th Earl Ferrers (1760–1842), the occupier as John Wallbank, the state of cultivation as 'Arable' and the area as 3 acres, 2 roods and 24 perches (14771.03 m²). Two other plots figure as 'Plumpton Close'. See detail of O.S. map with Plumpton Park indicated in maroon in image gallery below.

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

• 1837 tithe award for the parish of Brailsford, online at the Genealogist, piece 08, sub-piece 035, image 026, #114; and see piece 08, sub-piece 035, image 018, #787, #793 (£)
• accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, piece 08, sub-piece 035, sub-image 001, #114, #787, #793 (£).

Maps

• 25" O.S. map of Baslow And Bubnell parish, Derbyshire (1950s) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII.12 (1880; surveyed 1880)
• 25" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII.12 (1900; rev. 1898–99)
• 25" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII.12 (1922; rev. 1920)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII.SE (1885; surveyed 1880)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII.NE (1900; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII.SE (1901; rev. 1898–99)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII (1924; rev. 1920)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII (c. 1944–48; rev. 1938).

Background

• Wikipedia: Washington Shirley, 8th Earl Ferrers.

Also see

• Places named Plumpton Park.

Notes

Image gallery

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  Part of this field was formerly known as Plumpton Park / Google Earth Street View (click or tap to enlarge).

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  Plumpton Park indicated in maroon / Detail of 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XLIII.SE (1885; surveyed 1880); reprod. with perm. of NLS; under Creative Commons Attrib. (CC-BY) license; adapt. Henrik Thiil Nielsen.

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