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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Plumley Wd

Other OS name in the Parish of Purse Caundle

Historical Forms

  • PlumleyCoppice c.1759–73 DROMap

Etymology

, 1811 OS , PlumleyCoppice c.1759–73DROMap , probably ' plum-tree wood or clearing ' , v. plūme , lēah .

Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site

Major Settlement