PLUMPTON, a parish in the hundred of STREET, rape of LEWES, county of SUSSEX, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from Lewes, containing 272 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at & 10, and in the patronage of Mrs. Woodward. The church is a small mean building. There is a trifling sum, the bequest of Anthony Springet, in. 1735, for teaching poor children and supplying them with books. On Plumpton plain, a considerable eminence between Ditchling and Lewes, Sir Simon de Montford drew up his army, previously to the battle of Lewes.