Plumtree is a village

Village

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 and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the borough of Rushcliffe

Rushcliffe

Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England. Its council is based in West Bridgford. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by merging the West Bridgford Urban District, the Bingham Rural District and part of Basford Rural District.-Political representation:The...

, Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 221.
It is situated to the south east of Nottingham

Nottingham

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, between the villages of Tollerton

Tollerton, Nottinghamshire

Tollerton is a village situated in Rushcliffe just to the south of Nottingham, United Kingdom.The village is located in the Borough of Rushcliffe. The Parish Council of nine members runs local affairs and the population of the parish is registered as 1,776 residents.There is an annual village...

 and Keyworth

Keyworth

Keyworth is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located about 6 miles southeast of the centre of Nottingham...

.
Some of the farming land around the village is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall

Duchy of Cornwall

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 (Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales

Charles, Prince of Wales

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).
The parish church of St Mary

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree is a parish church in the Church of England in Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.-History:...

 has a Norman

Norman architecture

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 tower on Saxon foundations, which were found when the tower was rebuilt in 1906. The nave is of 13th century date. The north aisle was rebuilt and extended with stone from Nottingham's medieval Trent Bridge in 1873.

Plumtree Mill was a two-storey wooden post mill

Windmill

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 mounted on an open trestle raised on piers atop a mound. Derelict by 1907 it was burnt down c. 1930. The mound is still extant.

Plumtree also has one the leading cricket clubs in Nottinghamshire, being members of both the Nottinghamshire Premier League and the Newark Alliance and are the current holders (2010) of the leading county cup competition, the Popkess Cup.

History

The manor of Plumtree was held in medieval times by the Hastings family, who secured Plumtree as part of their offices as Chief Steward

Chief Steward

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 to the Crown. The family continued to hold Plumtree for several centuries. In 1637, Edmund Hastings Esq., a descendant, had extensive property dealings with John Levett

Levett

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, a York

York

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 barrister, who had married Hastings's wife's Copley family niece.