Plumpton is a place in Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...

, England

England

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. The Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey

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 map shows it as having a church and a manor house. It is within the parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 of "St Mary & St Peter Lois Weedon with Weston

Weston, Northamptonshire

Weston is a village in the south west of the English county of Northamptonshire; it is part of South Northamptonshire district. It gives its name to Weston Hall, the home of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell from 1927 until his death in 1988....

 and Plumpton".

The 1870-72 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales

Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales is a substantial topographical dictionary first published between 1870 and 1872, edited by the Reverend John Marius Wilson. It contains a detailed description 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