•  Plumpton Street, Cumberland

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Plumpton Street like this:

PLUMPTON-STREET, a township in Hesket-in-the-Forest parish, Cumberland; on the Roman road from Ambleside to Carlisle, and near the Lancaster and Carlisle railway, 6½ miles N N W of Penrith. Acres, 2, 677. Real property, £3, 176. Pop., 170. Houses, 26. This was a haunt of Robin Hood.

The location is that of the former Plumpton Street Presbyterian Church, later Plumpton Backstreet Chapel and now the Primitive Methodist Cottage Wood Centre (see http://www.penrithcircuit.org.uk/plumpton.htm, accessed 3rd December 2011). The records of the church are deposited with and documented by the Cumbria Record Office (DFCP 7, Records of Great Salkeld and Plumpton Street Presbyterian Churches; http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=023-dfcp7, accessed 3rd December 2011). The name "Plumpton Street" has not been found on any topographic maps, including 1:10,560 maps available on old-maps.co.uk. From entries in descriptive gazetteers it is clear that it was somewhat further from Carlisle than Plumpton Head. Additional information about this locality is available for Hesket in the Forest

Plumpton Street through time

Plumpton Street is now part of Eden district. Click here for graphs and data of how Eden has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Plumpton Street itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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