Plumpton is a small village about 4 miles (6 km) north of Penrith, Cumbria.
The village is made up of the former separate hamlets of Salkeld Gate and Brockleymoor and consists mainly of houses along a minor road connecting the A6 to the B5305 near Skelton and also a few houses and farms along the A6 itself.
Close by are the settlements of Plumpton Head, Plumpton Foot and Plumpton Street.
The village has an Anglican church, (St. John's[disambiguation needed]), primary school and a general stores cum post office. There is an hourly bus service to Penrith and Carlisle.
Plumpton railway station was opened by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway on 17 December 1846. It lay on the West Coast Main Line but after ownership by the London and North Western Railway and the London Midland and Scottish Railway it was closed by British Railways on 31 May 1948 soon after nationalisation.
Plumpton is within the civil parish of Hesket but was from 1866 to 1934 a separate parish under the name of Plumpton Wall. Before that it was a chapelry or township of Lazonby parish.
Plumpton Head, Plumpton Street and Plumpton Foot were not part of Plumpton parish but in Penrith or Hesket-in-the-Forest parishes.
| North: Carlisle | ||
| West: Skelton | Plumpton, Cumbria | East: Lazonby |
| South: Penrith |
Coordinates: 54°44′N 2°47′W / 54.733°N 2.783°W
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