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| | Britannia Castles: Plympton, Devon |
 | | The "Honour" of Plympton was the most important of all the great feudal holdings of Devon and the one most closely associated with the Redvers Earls, who had it from their ancestor, Baldwin de Brionne, before the Earldom was created. |
 | | It was an immense unit - 89 knights' fees or 185 manors extending all over the south-west corner of Devon, of which Plympton was then the chief town, Plymouth being, as yet, no more than a fishing village. |
 | | Plympton Castle was early important and long inhabited but, unfortunately, it has disappeared. |
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