Plomesgate is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of .
Plomesgate Hundred comprises the historic ports of Aldeburgh and Orford, the medieval market town of Saxmundham and twenty other parishes in the east of the county. It forms a strip around 14 miles long and up to 9 miles wide running south-east from near Framlingham to the North Sea. It is bounded on the east by the sea, on the north by Blything Hundred, on the west by Hoxne and Loes Hundreds and on the south by the Butley River which flows into the River Ore near Orford Ness.
The hundred is watered by the River Alde and its tributary streams and is generally a fertile loamy district with hills rising from the valleys and the coast and with sandy beaches in southern parts. It is in the Deanery of Orford in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk. It was one of seven Saxon hundreds grouped together as the Wicklaw Hundreds.
Listed as Plumesgata in the Domesday Book of 1086, the origin of the name is unknown though presumably a derivation of "Plum's gate".
Parishes
Plomesgate Hundred consists of the following 23 parishes:1841 Census Parish Area (acres)Aldeburgh1710Benhall2154Blaxhall1975Bruisyard1127Chillesford1693Cransford1174Farnham1154Friston1851Great Glemham1801Little Glemham1160Haselwood †1897Iken2579 Orford 2740 Parham 1970Rendham1687Saxmundham1400Snape1700Sternfield1107 Stratford St Andrew 638Sudbourne5000Swefling1120Tunstall2642Wantisden1300 † Hamlet of Aldeburgh
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