Qualla: Plympton https://qualla.com/plympton en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Plympton https://qualla.com/plympton Plympton: Introduction https://qualla.com/plympton/ Here is the strange irony at the heart of Plympton: the great city of Plymouth, sitting at the mouth of the River Plym, was named for a river that was named after Plympton. The town came first. Then the estuary silted up, the seagoing monks could no longer sail their boats inland to the priory, and trade slid downriver to a little fishing village called Sutton. Sutton became Plymouth. Plympton, once the more important of the two, became its quiet, medieval inland cousin, dominated by the green mound of a ruined Norman castle and the cohesive grid of a thousand-year-old street pattern.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/n/plympton-wp/gbvn-plympton-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Plympton: Plum Trees on the Ridgeway https://qualla.com/plympton/ The name has nothing to do with the river. Despite the obvious link to nearby Otterton and Yealmpton, Plympton was never sited on the Plym. It stands on the Ridgeway, the ancient trackway running down from Dartmoor, and its oldest written form, Plymentun, appears in an Anglo-Saxo...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/n/plympton-wp/gbvn-plympton-the-stannary-castle.mp3 0:06 3 full Plympton: The Boy Who Painted England https://qualla.com/plympton/ In 1723, in a stone house on the Ridgeway, a boy was born whose paintings would come to define how Georgian England looked at itself. His name was Joshua Reynolds, and his father was headmaster of Plympton Grammar School, a building still standing in the centre of town. Reynolds ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/n/plympton-wp/gbvn-plympton-the-boy-who-painted-england.mp3 0:06 4 full Plympton: The Rotten Borough https://qualla.com/plympton/ Before the Reform Act of 1832 swept it away, Plympton was one of England's most notorious rotten boroughs - a tiny constituency sending two MPs to Westminster on the strength of a handful of voters. The seats had a habit of attracting men of consequence rather than men of Plympto...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/n/plympton-wp/gbvn-plympton-the-rotten-borough.mp3 0:06 5 full Plympton: What Remains https://qualla.com/plympton/ Plympton today has 68 listed buildings, more than many full-sized English towns. The Grade I-listed Plympton House sits at one end of Fore Street; the Grade II*-listed Old Rectory, Guildhall, and Tudor Lodge punctuate the streetscape. Two churches anchor the parish: the Norman Ch...

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