Plumstead
Major Settlement in the Parish of Plumstead by Holt
Historical Forms
- Plumestede 1086 DB
- Plumsted(e) 1179 RA 1199 Seld 1201etfreqto1418 FF 1242–3 Fees 1248 Ch 1257,1269(p),1286 Ass 1275 RH 1291 Tax 1314 Ipm 1316 FA 1329,1547 Pat 1370to1417 BM 1461 AD
- Plomstede 1275 RH
- Plumpsted(e) 1309 FF 1358to1559 AD 1408 BM 1539 VE
Etymology
OE plūme 'plum, plum-tree' and stede. v. Sandred 1963: 183 f. Cf. Plumstead, Great and Little, in Blofield Hundred.