Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Plumpton

Plumpton, seat of the Earl of Harewood, 4 miles SE. of Harrogate, B. div. West-Riding Yorkshire; was for 600 years in possession of the Plumpton family.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Plompton

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