Plumpton, East Sussex

Plumpton
Church of St Michael, Plumpton
Plumpton is located in East Sussex
Plumpton
Plumpton
Location within East Sussex
Area9.7 km2 (3.7 sq mi) [1]
Population1,644 (Parish-2011)[2]
• Density450/sq mi (170/km2)
OS grid referenceTQ359132
• London41 miles (66 km) N
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLEWES
Postcode districtBN7
Dialling code01273
PoliceSussex
FireEast Sussex
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
WebsitePlumpton Council
List of places
UK
England
East Sussex
50°54′N 0°04′W / 50.90°N 0.07°W / 50.90; -0.07

Plumpton is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is located 5 mi (8.0 km) north-west of Lewes. The parish measures 6.5 mi (10.5 km) in length on its north–south axis and 1 mi (1.6 km) at its widest on the B2116 Underhill Road. The southern half of the parish lies within the South Downs National Park and at the highest point, 214 m (702 ft), the South Downs Way traverses the crest of Plumpton Plain. The parish includes the small village of Plumpton adjacent to the Downs and to the north the larger village of Plumpton Green where most of the community and services are based. Plumpton is known for its race course, and also Plumpton College, which farms over 2,500 acres (1,000 ha) of land and has become one of the leading centres for land-based education in the UK.

Plumpton is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having a church and two mills, and is shown as Pluntune, meaning 'town or settlement where plum-trees grew'.[3]

Plumpton Green is rumoured to have been the inspiration for the popular 1960s British children's television series Trumpton by Gordon Murray, with nearby Chailey being Chigley and Wivelsfield Green being Camberwick Green.[4]

  1. ^ "East Sussex in Figures". East Sussex County Council. Retrieved 26 April 2008.
  2. ^ "Civil parish population 2011". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  3. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.369.
  4. ^ "In Search of the Real Trumptonshire". Trumptonshire Web. Retrieved 19 April 2009.