Place:Plumpton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

Plumpton is a now a hamlet and civil parish located south of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. The alternate spelling of Plompton preceded Plumpton as the name of the parish and also Plompton Hall, an estate in the parish.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Plompton.

Historically, Plumpton was in the ecclesiastical parish of Spofforth in the Upper division of the Claro Wapentake. From 1894 until 1938, Plumpton was located in Knaresborough Rural District and from 1938 until 1974 in Nidderdale Rural District. In 1974 the area became part of the Harrogate District of North Yorkshire.

The page, Knaresborough Rural District, has an outline map of all the civil parishes in the district.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Plumpton.
• GENUKI has a supplementary page on Plumpton.

GENUKI provides an additional article on Plumpton and the family of that name.

• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Spofforth provides a list of useful resources.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Plumpton.
• A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. Those listed here provide data for the part of the West Riding that transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974 plus the northern parts of Leeds and Bradford. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey Northern part of the West Riding 1900 The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (rural districts of Sedbergh, Settle, Skipton, Pateley Bridge, Ripon, Knaresborough, Great Ouseburn, Clitheroe, Wharfedale, Wetherby, York, Bishopthorpe, Keighley, the northern part of Bradford, the northern part of Leeds, the northern part of Hunslet Urban District, the northern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the northern part of Selby Rural District). [Note: this map appears to be no longer available on the Vision of Britain website. This is unfortunate because the equivalent map from 1931-44 was redrawn after the 1938 reorganization of the rural districts in the northern part of the West Riding.]
• Ordnance Survey Northern part of the West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the northern part of the West Riding (mostly Settle, Skipton, Ripon and Pateley Bridge, and Nidderdale, with sections of Wharfedale and Wetherby) after the revisions of 1938.