Plumtree

Nottinghamshire County Council runs a mobile library service which visits Normanton-on-the-Wolds once a month.

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe upon Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 854
1861	R.G. 9 / 2486
1871	R.G. 10 / 3549
1891	R.G. 12 / 2718

• There was a church here at the time of the 1086 Domesday Book Survey.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• Largely Saxon, later work by Normans extended the church structure.
   
• The church was restored in 1875.
   
• The church tower was restored and partially rebuilt in 1908.
   
• The church seats 270.
   
• Ralph MILLS has a photograph of the Anglican church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St Mary tower on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1558.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham No. 3.
   
• Louis MILLS of the USA provides this list of Plumtree Burials.

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe upon Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

This parish, township and village lies 5.5 miles south-east of Nottingham and 13 miles north-west of Melton Mowbray. The parish covers 4,376 acres and includes the three townships of Plumtree, Normanton-on-the-Wolds and Clipstone-on-the-Wolds.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A606 trunk road, heading south out of Nottingham city for about 6 miles.
   
• Passenger Rail service ceased in 1949.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of the village centre on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2008.
   
• Richard VINCE has a photograph of a Grand House and the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2015.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the Village sign on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• An extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Plumtree to another place.

You can see the administrative areas in which Plumtree has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

The parish traditionally held a parish feast on the first Sunday after Trinity Sunday (late May or early June).

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Old Forge in Plumtree on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Millennium stone on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.

Geoff PICK has a photograph of the Griffin Inn on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2009.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Manor Farmhouse in Plumtree on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK615331 (Lat/Lon: 52.891843, -1.087343), Plumtree which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
• Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Alan MURAY-RUST has a photograph of the War Memorial in the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.

• For a list of names on the War Memorial, see the Nottingham County Council site.
   
• Each name on the War Memorial has been researched and the results seen at the Plumtree Village War Memorial.
   

Plumtree is derived from the Old English plum+treow or "plum tree". It appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Pluntre".

A. D. MILLS, "A Dictionary of English Place Names." Oxford Press, 1999.

• The townships of Plumtree and Normanton-on-the-Wolds were in the ancient North Rushcliffe Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• The township of Clipstone-on-the-Wolds was in the southern division of the ancient Bingham Wapentake (Hundred) in the county.
   
• This parish was, at one time, the capital of a hundred or wapentake of its own name.
   
• You may contact the local Plumtree Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• In 1774, Richard PRITCHETT and another donor now unknown left the interest of £34 for the poor.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Plumtree	Normanton	Clipstone
1801	209	102	62
1851	306	210	81
1881	378	~99	50
1901	230	209	47

The school was founded here in 1840.

Geoff PICK has a photograph of Plumtree School on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2009.

Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of Plumtree School (along with a little history) on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.