Plomesgate

Plomesgate is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 41,579 acres (168.26 km2).[1]

Plomesgate Hundred comprises the historic ports of Aldeburgh and Orford, the medieval market town of Saxmundham and twenty other parishes in the east of the county. It forms a strip around 14 miles long and up to 9 miles wide running south-east from near Framlingham to the North Sea. It is bounded on the east by the sea, on the north by Blything Hundred, on the west by Hoxne and Loes Hundreds and on the south by the Butley River which flows into the River Ore near Orford Ness.

The hundred is watered by the River Alde and its tributary streams and is generally a fertile loamy district with hills rising from the valleys and the coast and with sandy beaches in southern parts. It is in the Deanery of Orford in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk.

Listed as Plumesgata in the Domesday Book, the origin of the name is unknown though presumably a derivation of "Plum's gate".[2]

Parishes
Suffolk hundreds

Plomesgate Hundred consists of the following 23 parishes:[1][3]

Parish Area (acres)
Aldeburgh1710
Benhall2154
Blaxhall1975
Bruisyard1127
Chillesford1693
Cransford1174
Farnham1154
Friston1851
Great Glemham1801
Little Glemham1160
Haselwood †1897
Iken2579
Orford2740
Parham1970
Rendham1687
Saxmundham1400
Snape1700
Sternfield1107
Stratford St Andrew  638
Sudbourne5000
Swefling1120
Tunstall2642
Wantisden1300

† Hamlet of Aldeburgh

References
  1. William White (1844). History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk. p. 153.
  2. Walter Skeat (1913). The Place-names of Suffolk.
  3. 1841 Census

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