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	\| access-date = 14 February 2015}}</ref> Plymstock, along with Plympton, was absorbed into the City of Plymouth and today, like Plympton, forms a populous and mostly home-owning south-eastern [[suburb]] of the city.		\| access-date = 14 February 2015}}</ref> Plymstock, along with Plympton, was absorbed into the City of Plymouth and today, like Plympton, forms a populous and mostly home-owning south-eastern [[suburb]] of the city.

			=== Bone Caves ===
			{{Main\|Plymouth Bone Caves}}

			In March 1978, caves containing fossilised bones were discovered in the Turnchapel area of Plymstock.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=STONhp \|url=http://devonkarst.org.uk/Bone%20Caves%20of%20Plymouth%20&%20District/STONhp.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017230212/http://devonkarst.org.uk/Bone%20Caves%20of%20Plymouth%20&%20District/STONhp.html \|archive-date=2021-10-17 \|access-date=2025-12-31 \|website=devonkarst.org.uk}}</ref> Further caves were found around the city in the 19th and 20th centuries including those at [[Cattedown]], [[Stonehouse]], and [[Oreston]].<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Devon Karst Research Society \|title=CAThp \|url=http://devonkarst.org.uk/Bone%20Caves%20of%20Plymouth%20&%20District/CAThp.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801042606/http://devonkarst.org.uk/Bone%20Caves%20of%20Plymouth%20&%20District/CAThp.htm \|archive-date=2021-08-01 \|access-date=2025-12-31 \|website=devonkarst.org.uk}}</ref>

	==Amenities==		==Amenities==

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{{Short description|Suburb of Plymouth, Devon}}
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'''Plymstock''' is a [[commuter suburb]] of [[Plymouth]] and former [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[English county]] of [[Devon]].

==Geography==

Situated on the east bank of the [[River Plym]], Plymstock is geographically and historically part of the [[South Hams]]. It comprises the villages Billacombe, [[Elburton]], Goosewell, [[Hooe, Plymouth|Hooe]], [[Mount Batten]], [[Oreston]], Pomphlett, Staddiscombe, Turnchapel and Plymstock proper, the centrally located village after which the parish and suburb is named. The parish church is St Mary and All Saints.

The pedestrianised 1960s Broadway consists of a number of shops, including an [[Iceland (supermarket)|Iceland]] supermarket within the precinct and a [[Lidl]] supermarket nearby, three banks, six estate agents' and other local amenities including a library, a fire station and a small police station.

At Pomphlett, there is a [[Morrisons]] superstore and [[drive-through]] McDonald's burger restaurant. The population at the time of the [[United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]] was recorded at 24,103 with 11,652 owner occupied homes in the PL9 [[Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom|postcode]] area. The total population in 2011 increased to 24,758<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/plymstock-radford-e05002092#sthash.wjymsGWn.dpbs|title=Plymstock.Radford ward population 2011|access-date= 15 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/plymstock-dunstone-e05002091#sthash.4PYrVbWn.dpbs|title=Plymstock.Dunstone ward population|access-date= 15 February 2015}}</ref>

==History==
The earliest surviving documentary reference to the place is as ''Plemestocha'' in the [[Domesday Book]] and its name is derived from [[Old English]] meaning either "outlying farm with a plum-tree" or, if it is short for ''Plympton Stock'', "outlying farm belonging to [[Plympton]]".<ref name=CDEP>{{cite book
|title=The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-names
|last=Watts
|first=Victor
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|edition=1st paperback
|year=2010
|page=476
|isbn=978-0-521-16855-7}}</ref>

The local branch railways through the area to [[Turnchapel]] and [[Yealmpton]] have been removed, the bridges and stations demolished, and the land built on.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} Pomphlett Mill has been demolished and the site used for a roundabout. Pomphlett Creek (shown right), once a popular rowing stretch has been partly filled in and what remains is largely silted up.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Until the 20th century Plymstock was a rural parish but began to develop rapidly just before and after the Second World War as a residential area outside Plymouth but acting as a dormitory area for the city. In 1961 the parish had a population of 14,700.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10077620/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Plymstock CP/AP through time|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=31 March 2023}}</ref> On 1 April 1967,<ref name="city council">{{cite web
| website = The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History
| publisher = Plymouth Data
| last = Moseley
| first = Brian
| title = Plymstock
| date = February 2012
| url = http://www.plymouthdata.info/Plymstock.htm
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130926163440/http://www.plymouthdata.info/Plymstock.htm
| archive-date = 26 September 2013
| access-date = 14 February 2015}}</ref> Plymstock, along with Plympton, was absorbed into the City of Plymouth and today, like Plympton, forms a populous and mostly home-owning south-eastern [[suburb]] of the city.

==Amenities==

There are numerous public spaces including a huge public sports area at Staddiscombe. There are three rugby pitches at Elburton, there is a major golf club at Staddon Heights and a commercial driving range near Elburton.

There are many state primary schools in the area and two very large [[comprehensive school]]s, [[Coombe Dean School]] and [[Plymstock School]]. There is one nearby [[independent school]] in the city, and children who choose to take and get a very high pass in the [[Eleven-Plus exam|11+ exam]] can attend one of the three [[grammar schools]] in Plymouth.

In 2008, [[Coombe Dean School]] achieved national notoriety after a popular school plan to erect two generating [[windmills]] was blocked by local councillors following opposition by residents of surrounding bungalows.<ref>{{cite news|title=School shuts down its two wind turbines|url=http://www.westbriton.co.uk/school-shuts-wind-turbines/story-11442480-detail/story.html|access-date=8 July 2016|work=West Briton|date=18 August 2009}}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Frequent buses connect most areas of Plymstock with routes across the city linking with the railway station and Derriford hospital. There is a water taxi linking [[Mount Batten]] with Plymouth [[Barbican, Plymouth|Barbican]].

==Folklore==

[[Childe's Tomb]] on Dartmoor is the legendary site of the death of Childe who, caught in a snowstorm, killed and [[Disembowelment|disembowelled]] his horse and climbed inside for shelter, but still froze to death. He left a message to say that the first person to bury him would get his lands at Plymstock. The greedy monks of [[Tavistock, Devon|Tavistock]] buried him and claimed the lands. The ghosts of monks carrying a [[bier]] have supposedly been seen at Childe's Tomb.<ref name="Hippisley Coxe30">Hippisley Coxe, Anthony E. (1973). ''Haunted Britain''. Pub. Hutchinson. {{ISBN|0-09-116540-7}}. p. 30.</ref>

==References==

{{Reflist}}{{City of Plymouth}}{{Devon}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Suburbs of Plymouth, Devon]]
[[Category:Former civil parishes in Devon]]

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