PLUNGAR, a parish in the hundred of FRAMLAND, county of LEICESTER, lOf miles (N. by E.) from Melton- Mowbray, containing 203 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester, aud diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Duke of Rutland. The church is dedicated to St. Helen. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Grantham and Nottingham canal passes through the parish.