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Preston Plucknett

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for Somerset, who, helped by three good marriages, accumulated a respectable wealth. The manor was left to his third and surviving spouse, Katherine Payne, and eventually inherited by his three daughters, one of which, Alice, was married to Sir
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of the town. Throughout the centuries the spelling and pronunciation of the name has changed and evolved until it became the present day "Preston Plucknett." The parish of Preston Plucknett was part of the
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defined as "a very large string bag made of thin strong cord into which feathers from freshly killed ducks and chickens were stuffed, from Preston in Lancashire".
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church in 1988: until that time, it had been a church of St John’s, the parish church of Yeovil. It has a daughter church, St Peter's, built in the 1930s.
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G. L. Harriss, "Stourton family (per. c. 1380–1485)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005
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S. J. Gunn, "Daubeney, Giles, first Baron Daubeney (1451/2–1508)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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and added his surname to Preston. Following the 20th century expansion of Yeovil, Preston Plucknett became little more than a
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of Preston Plucknett was built in the early 15th century, around 1420, by John Stourton (d. 1438; cousin of his namesake
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was added in the 1950s and an annexe in 1979, which was expanded in 2001. It became a separate
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Sir Robert de Z. Hall, "Post-Medieval Land Tenure, Preston Plucknett",
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Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
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The history of St James' Church, Preston Plucknett, Yeovil
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at Preston Plucknett was included in the fifth list of
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Stone building with tower
Church of St James, Preston Plucknett
Preston Plucknett is located in Somerset
Somerset
OS grid reference
ST535165
Civil parish
Yeovil
Unitary authority
Somerset
Ceremonial county
Somerset
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
BA21
Dialling code
Police
Avon and Somerset
Fire
Devon and Somerset
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
Yeovil
UK

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