Plympton St Maurice, Devon Genealogy

England Devon

Parish History


"PLYMPTON MAURICE, or PLYMPTON EARL, is an ancient disfranchised borough, and a small stannary and market town, pleasantly situated in a fertile vale, about 5 miles E. by N. of Plymouth, and 2 miles E. of the river Plym. It has in it parish only about 170A. of land, and 933 inhabitants, including 95 in Plympton House Lunatic Asylum. It has now a market for provisions, every Saturday; a cattle market, on the first Wednesday of every month; and four annual fairs, . . . The town consists of four small streets, with a few respectable houses in the suburbs. . . At the commencement of the civil wars, Plympton was the headquarters of the small force that the royalists then had in the county. . . The Parish Church (St. Maurice,) is . . . a small neat fabric, standing near the castle mound. The benefice is a perpetual curacy, valued in 1831 at £100 per annum. It is in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and incumbency of the Rev. C.K. Williams, D.D. .. " [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)]

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Probate records
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