Plympton

Plympton is a suburb of the city of in , England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the silted up and trade moved down river to Plymouth and was the seat of Plympton Priory the most significant local landholder for many centuries.
Wikipedia
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Town with 8,890 residents
  • Description: suburb of Plymouth, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Plympton Erle”, “Plympton Maurice”, “Plympton Saint Mary”, “Plympton Saint Maurice”, “Plympton St Mary”, “Plymton”, and “Ridgeway”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Plympton Library and Plympton St Mary’s CofE Infant School.

Library
Photo: Clib31, CC BY-SA 4.0.

School
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pub
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a pub.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Plympton St Maurice and Crabtree.

Suburb
Plympton is a suburb of the city of in , England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the silted up and trade moved down river to Plymouth and was the seat of Plympton Priory the most significant local landholder for many centuries.

Locality
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburb of in the county of . Originally, it was a small village beside the coaching route around the top of the where travellers stopped before or after crossing the marshland known as Marsh Mills and the road to Plympton then Exeter and London.

Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the name of an area of the city of in the county of . Originally a hamlet and manor separate from the city, urban expansion of the 20th century has meant that the area has become widely built up. is situated 2 miles northwest of Plympton.

Plympton

Latitude
50.38982° or 50° 23′ 23″ north
Longitude
-4.05857° or 4° 3′ 31″ west
Population
8,890
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB PMT
Open location code
9C2Q9WQR+WH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 483029875
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640192
Wiki­data ID
Q7205889
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Plympton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Plympton”
  • Arabic: “بليمبتون”
  • Aragonese: “Plympton”
  • Armenian: “Պլիմպթոն”
  • Arpitan: “Plympton”
  • Asturian: “Plympton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Plimpton”
  • Bambara: “Plympton”
  • Basque: “Plympton”
  • Bavarian: “Plympton”
  • Belarusian: “Плімптан”
  • Bengali: “প্লাইমা্পটন সেন্ট ভ্যালি”
  • Breton: “Plympton”
  • Cajun French: “Plympton”
  • Catalan: “Plympton”
  • Cebuano: “Plympton”
  • Chinese: “普來姆頓”
  • Chinese: “普来姆顿”
  • Chinese: “普林普頓”
  • Corsican: “Plympton”
  • Croatian: “Plympton”
  • Czech: “Plympton”
  • Danish: “Plympton”
  • Dutch: “Plympton”
  • Esperanto: “Plympton”
  • Estonian: “Plympton”
  • Finnish: “Plympton”
  • French: “Plympton”
  • Friulian: “Plympton”
  • Galician: “Plympton”
  • German: “Plympton (Devon)”
  • German: “Plympton”
  • Gujarati: “પ્લાય્મટન”
  • Hebrew: “פלימפטון”
  • Hungarian: “Plympton”
  • Ido: “Plympton”
  • Indonesian: “Plympton”
  • Interlingua: “Plympton”
  • Interlingue: “Plympton”
  • Irish: “Plympton”
  • Italian: “Plympton”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Plympton”
  • Japanese: “プラインプトン・セイント・マリー”
  • Japanese: “プリンプトン”
  • Kabyle: “Plympton”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಲೈಂಪ್ಟನ್”
  • Kongo: “Plympton”
  • Korean: “플리프턴 세인트 메리”
  • Latin: “Plympton”
  • Latvian: “Plympton”
  • Ligurian: “Plympton”
  • Limburgan: “Plympton”
  • Lithuanian: “Plympton”
  • Low German: “Plympton”
  • Luxembourgish: “Plympton”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Plympton”
  • Malagasy: “Plympton”
  • Malay: “Plympton”
  • Minangkabau: “Plympton”
  • Narom: “Plympton”
  • Neapolitan: “Plympton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plympton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plympton”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Plympton”
  • Papiamento: “Plympton”
  • Persian: “پلمپتون”
  • Picard: “Plympton”
  • Piemontese: “Plympton”
  • Polish: “Plympton”
  • Portuguese: “Plympton”
  • Prussian: “Plympton”
  • Romagnol: “Plympton”
  • Romanian: “Plympton”
  • Romansh: “Plympton”
  • Russian: “Плимптон (Девон)”
  • Russian: “Плимптон”
  • Sardinian: “Plympton”
  • Scots: “Plympton”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Plympton”
  • Serbian: “Plympton”
  • Sicilian: “Plympton”
  • Slovak: “Plympton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پلمپتون”
  • Spanish: “Plympton”
  • Swahili: “Plympton”
  • Swedish: “Plympton, England”
  • Swedish: “Plympton”
  • Swiss German: “Plympton”
  • Tamil: “பிலிம்ப்டன்”
  • Telugu: “ప్లైప్టన్”
  • Turkish: “Plympton”
  • Ukrainian: “Плімптон”
  • Urdu: “پلیمپٹن”
  • Venetian: “Plympton”
  • Vietnamese: “Plympton”
  • Vlaams: “Plympton”
  • Volapük: “Plympton”
  • Walloon: “Plympton”
  • Welsh: “Plympton”
  • Wolof: “Plympton”
  • Zulu: “Plympton”

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Localities in the Area

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