Yealmpton
 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification.(February 2012) |
| Yealmpton | |
|---|---|
 St Bartholomew's Church | |
  Yealmpton Location withinDevon | |
| Population | 1,677(2011) |
| OS grid reference | SX5751 |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | PLYMOUTH |
| Postcode district | PL8 |
| Dialling code | 01752 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Yealmpton(/ˈjælmtən/) is a village andcivil parishin theEnglishcounty ofDevon.It is located in theSouth Hamson theA379PlymouthtoKingsbridgeroad and is about 8 miles (13 km) fromPlymouth.Its name derives from theRiver Yealmthat flows through the village. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,923,[1]falling to 1,677 at the2011 census.[2]There is anelectoral wardof the same name. The population of this ward in 2011 was 2,049.[3]
Yealmpton is home to a 400-year-old stone cottage, where it is said a version of the famous rhymeOld Mother Hubbardwas written. It is also the site of Kitley Caves, including the now closedKitley Show Cave,where green marble was quarried; there is an arch of it in theBritish Museum.John Pollexfen Bastard(1756–1816) a British Tory politician, landowner and colonel of the East Devonshire Militia, lived at Kitley House, Yealmpton.
Parish church
[edit]The parish church is dedicated to St Bartholomew and was designed byWilliam Butterfield.It dates from 1850, apart from the tower which was only built in 1915. It is in a version of the Gothic of the late 13th and early 14th century. The font is Norman and the monuments (moved here from the old church) include a brass to Sir John Crocker (1508), one to Mary Coppelston (died 1630) (an arched recess with kneeling figures against the tomb-chest), and several to members of the Bastard family.[4]
Historic estates
[edit]The parish contains several historic estates including:
Lyneham
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Lynehamwas,[5]AfterHele[6]the second earliest known home of the Crocker family, one of the most ancient in Devon according to"that old saw often used among us in discourse",the traditional rhyme related byPrince(d.1723):[7]
"Crocker, Cruwys, and Coplestone,
Whenthe Conquerorcame were at home "
- The last male of the Crocker family of Lyneham was Courtenay Crocker (d.1740),[8]several times MP for Plympton.[9]The Cruwys family in 2014 still resides in its ancientmanor houseatCruwys Morchardwhere, despite the traditional rhyme, it is first recorded in the reign of KingJohn(1199-1216), or possibly a little earlier.[10]The senior branch of the Copleston family died out in the male line in 1632,[11]but the Coplestons of Bowden survived a further century until the death without progeny of Thomas Copleston (1688-1748), MP, whose heirs in 1753 sold Bowden to William Pollexfen Bastard of Kitley.[12]
Kitley
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Kitley house is the former home of thePollexfenfamily, who also had a residence atMothecombeinHolbeton.
Bowden
[edit]Bowden, seat of a junior branch of the Coplestone family ofCoplestonin the parish ofColebrooke.It was first the home of Walter Copleston, 3rd son of John II Copleston (d.1457) of Copleston, thrice MP for Devon, by his wife Elizabeth Hawley (d.1447).[13]Thomas Coplestone(1688-1748) of Bowden was MP forCallingtonin Cornwall.[14]
Railway service
[edit]From 1898 to 1960, Yealmpton was the terminus of the Yealmpton toPlymouthbranch railway line. The line was built by theGreat Western Railway.In its early days the line carried passengers and freight. The growth in the number of motor cars and buses led to reducing passenger traffic in the 1920s and passenger services ceased on the line in 1930. From then until 1941, only freight traffic ran on the line.
Passenger services were restored in 1941, as villages such as Yealmpton were then being used as dormitory areas by the people ofPlymouthfollowing the severeair raidson the city. The passenger services ceased again in October 1947 and freight services only ran until 1960, when the line closed completely. The station at Yealmpton was demolished and housing in Riverside Walk now stands on the site.
Agricultural Show
[edit]Known as one of the best one day shows in the region, 2008 marked the 121st Agricultural Show. Despite the weather, thousands turned up to enjoy the best of what theDevoncountryside had to offer. Highlights included theRoyal Horse Artilleryparading and firing their guns as well as the M.A.D mountain bike display team.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^"Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: South Hams".Neighbourhood Statistics.Office for National Statistics.Retrieved8 July2012.
- ^"Parish population 2011".Retrieved20 February2015.
- ^"Ward population 2011".Retrieved20 February2015.
- ^Pevsner, N. (1952)South Devon.Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 314
- ^Pevsner, p.553
- ^Vivian, p.254
- ^Prince, John,(1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, p.274
- ^Lysons, Daniel & Samuel, Magna Britannia, Volume 6, Devonshire (1822), Families removed since 1620, pp.173-225[1]
- ^Prince, p.273
- ^Hoskins, W.G.,A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.380
- ^Vivian, p.225, on the death of John V Copleston (1609-1632)
- ^Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.389
- ^Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.224/6, pedigree of Copleston
- ^"COPLESTON, Thomas (1688-1748), of Bowden, Devon. | History of Parliament Online".