Plumpton Family History
Plumpton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places called with Old English plūme plȳme ‘plum plum tree’ + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ including Plumpton (Yorkshire Northamptonshire Sussex Cumbria) Fieldplumpton or Woodplumpton (Lancashire) Plympton (Devon) and a lost Plumpton in Kingsbury (Warwicks).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022