Yealmpton
Sign in to saveYealmpton () is a village and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is located in the South Hams on the A379 Plymouth to Kingsbridge road and is about from Plymouth. Its name derives from the River Yealm that flows through the village. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,923, falling to 1,677 at the 2011 census. There is an electoral ward of the same name. The population of this ward in 2011 was 2,049.
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Place details
- Locality
- South Hams
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,677
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- St. Bartholomew's church, Yealmpton (2) - geograph.org.uk - 1420127.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Bartholomew's Church
- UK place.official_name
- Yealmpton
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SX5751
- UK place.population
- 1,677
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Yealmpton
- UK place.shire_district
- South Hams
- UK place.shire_county
- Devon
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South West Devon
- UK place.post_town
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- South Hams
- Population
- +2049
- Image
- St. Bartholomew's church, Yealmpton (2) - geograph.org.uk - 1420127.jpg
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
9 sectionsContents
- Parish church
- Historic estates
- Lyneham
- Kitley
- Bowden
- Railway service
- Agricultural Show
- Footnotes
- External links
Yealmpton () is a village and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is located in the South Hams on the A379 Plymouth to Kingsbridge road and is about from Plymouth. Its name derives from the River Yealm that flows through the village. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,923, falling to 1,677 at the 2011 census. There is an electoral ward of the same name. The population of this ward in 2011 was 2,049.
Yealmpton is home to a 400-year-old stone cottage, where it is said a version of the famous rhyme Old Mother Hubbard was written. It is also the site of Kitley Caves, including the now closed Kitley Show Cave, where green marble was quarried; there is an arch of it in the Natural History Museum. John Pollexfen Bastard (1756–1816) a British Tory politician, landowner and colonel of the East Devonshire Militia, lived at Kitley House, Yealmpton.