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Plumpton, Northamptonshire


Plumpton is a place in Northamptonshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Paulerspury in South Northamptonshire district; the population of the parish, including Plumpton, Paulerspury and Pury End, was 1,018 in the 2011 census. The Ordnance Survey map shows it as having a church and a manor house. It is within the ecclesiastical parish of "St Mary & St Peter Lois Weedon with Weston and Plumpton".

The 1870-72 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales describes Plumpton as having a population of 42 in 12 houses, and describes the church as "good" and having a "pinnacled tower". The church is now cared for by a charity, the St. John the Baptist, Plumpton, Heritage Trust.

Plumpton was a civil parish until 1935

Coordinates: 52°07′54″N 1°07′56″W / 52.13167°N 1.13222°W / 52.13167; -1.13222



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