Plympton

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Old English Plymentun (c. 900), from plymen (“growing with plum trees”), from plume.[1]

Proper noun

Plympton

  1. a former town which is now a suburb of Plymouth, Devon, England.

References
  1. Watts, Victor (2010) The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names, 1st paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 475–6
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