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	'''Yealmpton''' ({{IPAc-en\|'\|j\|æ\|l\|m\|t\|ə\|n}}) is a village and [[civil parishes in England\|civil parish]] in the [[England\|English]] county of [[Devon]]. It is located in the [[South Hams]] on the [[A379 road\|A379]] [[Plymouth]] to [[Kingsbridge]] road and is about {{convert\|8\|mi}} 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,<ref>{{cite web\|title=Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: South Hams\|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790363\|work=Neighbourhood Statistics\|publisher=Office for National Statistics\|access-date=8 July 2012}}</ref> falling to 1,677 at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011\|2011 census]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=~~http~~://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-southwestengland.php?cityid=E34002137\|title=Parish population 2011\|access-date= 20 February 2015}}</ref> There is an [[electoral ward]] of the same name. The population of this ward in 2011 was 2,049.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/yealmpton-e05003589#sthash.PxrRWOlP.dpbs\|title=Ward population 2011\|access-date= 20 February 2015}}</ref>		'''Yealmpton''' ({{IPAc-en\|'\|j\|æ\|l\|m\|t\|ə\|n}}) is a village and [[civil parishes in England\|civil parish]] in the [[England\|English]] county of [[Devon]]. It is located in the [[South Hams]] on the [[A379 road\|A379]] [[Plymouth]] to [[Kingsbridge]] road and is about {{convert\|8\|mi}} from [[Plymouth]]. Its name derives from the [[River Yealm]] that flows through the village. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,923,<ref>{{cite web\|title=Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: South Hams\|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790363\|work=Neighbourhood Statistics\|publisher=Office for National Statistics\|access-date=8 July 2012}}</ref> falling to 1,677 at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011\|2011 census]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-southwestengland.php?cityid=E34002137\|title=Parish population 2011\|access-date= 20 February 2015}}</ref> There is an [[electoral ward]] of the same name. The population of this ward in 2011 was 2,049.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/yealmpton-e05003589#sthash.PxrRWOlP.dpbs\|title=Ward population 2011\|access-date= 20 February 2015}}</ref>

	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 [[~~British~~ Museum]]. [[John Pollexfen Bastard]] (1756–1816) a British Tory politician, landowner and colonel of the East Devonshire Militia, lived at Kitley House, Yealmpton.		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, London\|Natural History Museum]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://qualifiedstonemason.com/portfolio/restoration/kitley-house/ \|title = Mark Robinson & Sons {{!}} Kitley House }}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.geocollections.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol10/geocurator_10_4.pdf\|title = The Geological Curator {{!}} Vol 10 No.4 p149 }}</ref> [[John Pollexfen Bastard]] (1756–1816) a British Tory politician, landowner and colonel of the East Devonshire Militia, lived at Kitley House, Yealmpton.

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	*[http://www.colin99.co.uk/yealmpton.htm Yealmpton]		*[http://www.colin99.co.uk/yealmpton.htm Yealmpton]
	*[~~http~~://www.yealmpton.org/ Yealmpton Community Association]		*[https://www.yealmpton.org/ Yealmpton Community Association]
	*[http://www.yealmpton-parishcouncil.org.uk/ Yealmpton Parish Council]		*[http://www.yealmpton-parishcouncil.org.uk/ Yealmpton Parish Council]
	*[http://www.yealmptonshow.co.uk/ Yealmpton Agricultural Show]		*[http://www.yealmptonshow.co.uk/ Yealmpton Agricultural Show]

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'''Yealmpton''' ({{IPAc-en|'|j|æ|l|m|t|ə|n}}) is a village and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[England|English]] county of [[Devon]]. It is located in the [[South Hams]] on the [[A379 road|A379]] [[Plymouth]] to [[Kingsbridge]] road and is about {{convert|8|mi}} 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,<ref>{{cite web|title=Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: South Hams|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790363|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|publisher=Office for National Statistics|access-date=8 July 2012}}</ref> falling to 1,677 at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-southwestengland.php?cityid=E34002137|title=Parish population 2011|access-date= 20 February 2015}}</ref> There is an [[electoral ward]] of the same name. The population of this ward in 2011 was 2,049.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/yealmpton-e05003589#sthash.PxrRWOlP.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|access-date= 20 February 2015}}</ref>

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 [[British Museum]]. [[John Pollexfen Bastard]] (1756–1816) a British Tory politician, landowner and colonel of the East Devonshire Militia, lived at Kitley House, Yealmpton.

==Parish church==
The parish church is dedicated to St Bartholomew and was designed by [[William Butterfield]]. It dates from 1850, apart from the tower which was only built in 1915. It is in a version of the Gothic of the late 13th and early 14th century. The font is Norman and the monuments (moved here from the old church) include a brass to Sir John Crocker (1508), one to Mary Coppelston (died 1630) (an arched recess with kneeling figures against the tomb-chest), and several to members of the Bastard family.<ref>Pevsner, N. (1952) ''South Devon''. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 314</ref>

==Historic estates==
The parish contains several historic estates including:

===Lyneham===
[[File:LynehamYealmptonDevonGeograph.jpg|thumb|200px|Lyneham, Yealmpton]]
[[Lyneham, Yealmpton|Lyneham]] was,<ref>Pevsner, p.553</ref> After ''Hele''<ref>Vivian, p.254</ref> the second earliest known home of the Crocker family, one of the most ancient in Devon according to ''"that old saw often used among us in discourse"'', the traditional rhyme related by [[John Prince (biographer)|Prince]] (d.1723):<ref>[[John Prince (biographer)|Prince, John]], (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, p.274</ref>
<blockquote>
''"Crocker, Cruwys, and Coplestone'',<br />
''When [[William the Conqueror|the Conqueror]] came were at home"''
</blockquote>
:The last male of the Crocker family of Lyneham was Courtenay Crocker (d.1740),<ref>Lysons, Daniel & Samuel, Magna Britannia, Volume 6, Devonshire (1822), Families removed since 1620, pp.173-225 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50555]</ref> several times MP for Plympton.<ref>Prince, p.273</ref> The Cruwys family in 2014 still resides in its ancient [[manor house]] at [[Cruwys Morchard]] where, despite the traditional rhyme, it is first recorded in the reign of King [[John of England|John]] (1199-1216), or possibly a little earlier.<ref>[[William George Hoskins|Hoskins, W.G.]], A New Survey of England: Devon, London, 1959 (first published 1954), p.380</ref> The senior branch of the Copleston family died out in the male line in 1632,<ref>Vivian, p.225, on the death of John V Copleston (1609-1632)</ref> but the Coplestons of Bowden survived a further century until the death without progeny of Thomas Copleston (1688-1748), MP, whose heirs in 1753 sold Bowden to William Pollexfen Bastard of Kitley.<ref>Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.389</ref>

===Kitley===
[[File:Kitley House 2013-09-07 23-11-06.jpg|thumb|200px|Kitley, Yealmpton]]
Kitley house is the former home of the [[Pollexfen]] family, who also had a residence at [[Mothecombe]] in [[Holbeton]].

===Bowden===
Bowden, seat of a junior branch of the Coplestone family of [[Copplestone|Copleston]] in the parish of [[Colebrooke, Devon|Colebrooke]]. It was first the home of Walter Copleston, 3rd son of John II Copleston (d.1457) of Copleston, thrice MP for Devon, by his wife Elizabeth Hawley (d.1447).<ref>Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp.224/6, pedigree of Copleston</ref> [[Thomas Coplestone]] (1688-1748) of Bowden was MP for [[Callington (UK Parliament constituency)|Callington]] in Cornwall.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/copleston-thomas-1688-1748 |title = COPLESTON, Thomas (1688-1748), of Bowden, Devon. {{!}} History of Parliament Online}}</ref>

== Railway service ==
From 1898 to 1960, Yealmpton was the terminus of the Yealmpton to [[Plymouth]] branch railway line. The line was built by the [[Great Western Railway]]. In its early days the line carried passengers and freight. The growth in the number of motor cars and buses led to reducing passenger traffic in the 1920s and passenger services ceased on the line in 1930. From then until 1941, only freight traffic ran on the line.

[[File:Brixton Road railway station 1910592.jpg|thumb|right|Remains of Brixton Road station in 1964]]
Passenger services were restored in 1941, as villages such as Yealmpton were then being used as dormitory areas by the people of [[Plymouth]] following the severe [[airstrike|air raids]] on the city. The passenger services ceased again in October 1947 and freight services only ran until 1960, when the line closed completely. The station at Yealmpton was demolished and housing in Riverside Walk now stands on the site.

== Agricultural Show ==
Known as one of the best one day shows in the region, 2008 marked the 121st Agricultural Show. Despite the weather, thousands turned up to enjoy the best of what the [[Devon]] countryside had to offer. Highlights included the [[Royal Horse Artillery]] parading and firing their guns as well as the M.A.D mountain bike display team.

==Footnotes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.colin99.co.uk/yealmpton.htm Yealmpton]
*[http://www.yealmpton.org/ Yealmpton Community Association]
*[http://www.yealmpton-parishcouncil.org.uk/ Yealmpton Parish Council]
*[http://www.yealmptonshow.co.uk/ Yealmpton Agricultural Show]
*[http://www.itvlocal.com/westcountry/?player=WCT_HomePage_15&void=217626 Yealmpton Agricultural Show - ITV Westcountry]
*[http://www.itv.com/Westcountry/ ITV Westcountry, your local news for Devon]
*[http://www.britishpathe.com/video/mother-hubbards-cottage/ Film about Old Mother Hubbard's Cottage in Yealmpton from 1960] British Pathe

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