Plympton, Devon : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Plympton. You may be able to find further references to Plympton in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Plympton hundred Bartholomew
PLYMPTON a hundred Imperial
PLYMPTON-EARLS, or Plympton, St. Maurice Imperial
Plympton, (or Plympton Earls or Maurice) Bartholomew
Plympton St Mary parish Bartholomew
PLYMPTON-ST. MARY a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Plympton.

Place Type of entry Source
Colebrooke village Bartholomew
COLEBROOKE a village Imperial
Hemerdon hamlet Bartholomew
Honicknowle village Bartholomew
Leemill Bridge hamlet Bartholomew
LEE-MILL-BRIDGE a hamlet Imperial
Ridgway village Bartholomew
Underwood village Bartholomew
UNDERWOOD a village Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Ridgeway 0 2
Underwood 0 2
Colebrooke 0 2
Saltram 0 2
Elburton 0 2
Brixton 0 2
Crabtree 0 2
Chelson Meadow 0 1
Sparkwell 0 1
Plym Bridge 0 2
Efford 0 1
Pomphlett 0 2
Kitley 0 2
Plymstock 0 2
Laira 0 2
Yealmpton 0 2
Egg Buckland 0 2
Oreston 0 2
Staddiscombe 0 2
Hooe 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Plympton. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
PLYMPTON John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
PLYMPTON EARLS John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
PLYMPTON EARLS OR MAURICE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
PLYMPTON EARLS OR PLYMPTON ST MAURICE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
PLYMPTON OR PLYMPTON EARLS OR MAURICE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
PLYMPTON ST MARY John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
PLYMPTON ST MAURICE John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.