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Plumpton Park, Hesket
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Plumpton Park
locality:-   Plumpton
civil parish:-   Hesket (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   park (gone) 
1Km square:-   NY4938 (about) 
10Km square:-   NY43
references:-   Camden 1789
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789
placename:-  Plumpton Park
placename:-  Haia de Plumpton
placename:-  Inclosure of Plumpton
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 173:-  "..."
"... Pete-rill ... , a rivulet, on whose bank is Plumpton park [footnote = Haia de Plumpton or the Inclosure of Plumpton], a large park appropriated by the kings of England antiently for deer, but wisely disposed of by Henry VIII. for men's habitations, being almost on the borders of England and Scotland."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Plumpton Park
source data:-   Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789.
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Page 190:-  "..."
"Plumpton park is held by the Lowthers under the crown."
evidence:-   old map:- Cooke 1802
placename:-  Plumpton Park
source data:-   Map, Cumberland, scale about 15.5 miles to 1 inch, by George Cooke, 1802, bound in Gray's New Book of Roads, 1824, published by Sherwood, Jones and Co, Paternoster Road, London, 1824.
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"[Plumpton] Park"
outline of fence palings; park 
item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2000.62.2
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evidence:-   old map:- Wallis 1810 (Cmd) 
placename:-  Plumpton Park
source data:-   Road map, hand coloured engraving, Cumberland, scale about 16 miles to 1 inch, by James Wallis, 77 Berwick Stree, Soho, London, 1810.
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"Plumpton Park"
outline with fence palings; park 
item:-  Dove Cottage : 2009.81.10
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evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Plompton Park
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.508 
From the Compendium of County History:-  "Plompton Park, according to Ritson, was a favourite haunt of Robin Hood."
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