PLUMPTON (WOOD), a chapelry in the parish of ST-MICHAEL, hundred of AMOUNDERNESS, county palatine of LANCASTER, 4 miles (N.W. byN.) from Preston, containing 1635 inhabitants; The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £.400 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of St. Michael's.