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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.
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  • 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.

School
Hele's School, formerly Plympton Grammar School, is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Plympton, , England. It is a comprehensive school for pupils aged 11 to 18 and is part of the Westcountry Schools Trust.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leigham and Efford.

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.

Suburb
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an historic manor formerly in the parish of , Devon, England. Today it has been absorbed by the city of to become a large, mostly post-World War II, eastern suburb of the city. is situated 2 miles west of Plympton.

Suburb
Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
– previously recorded as Lare, Lary poynte, the Leerie, and the Lairy – was originally the name given to that part of the estuary of the from the up to Marsh Mills in , Devon, England. is situated 2 miles west 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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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Plympton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Plympton”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Plympton”. Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.