216|Plymouth Dock, Devon, 122. (_see Plymouth_) | |Plymouth Sound, Devon, 122. (_see Plymouth_) | 210|=Plympton Earle=, Devon, 122. A borough, market town, and parish, |containing 92 houses, and 715 inhabitants. It was formerly called |Plympton Thomas, out of respect to Thomas à Becket. | |The town consists of two irregular streets, and has a Guildhall, |supported on stone pillars, beneath which is held the corn market. |This is one of the stannary towns for stamping tin, and is a very |ancient borough; it sends two members to parliament. The market is |on Saturday, and there is also a market for all kinds of cattle |the second Wednesday in every month. The town is well supplied |with fish from the neighbouring sea-port towns almost every day. | 210|Plympton, St. Mary, Devon, 122. A parish containing 245 houses, |and 1562 inhabitants. | 202|Point Bridge, Devon, 151. | 229|Polecat, Cornwall, 124. | 251|Polglaze, Cornwall, 158. | 248|Polharmon, Cornwall, 126. | |Poling, Sussex, 217. A village containing 23 houses, and 170 |inhabitants. | 217|Pollaphant, Cornwall, 153. | 224|Polscove, Cornwall, 123. | 183|Poltimore, Devon, 197. A parish containing 46 houses, and 250 |inhabitants. | 225|Polvathic, Cornwall, 124. | 254|Polwhele, Cornwall, 158. | |Polygon, Hants, 220. | 75|Pond’s Foot Hill, Hants, 86, | 106|=Poole=, Dorset, 90. A sea-port, borough, and market town, |containing 1134 houses, and 4816 inhabitants. | |This town is about three quarters of a mile long, half a mile |broad, and consists of three or four considerable streets, running |nearly from north-east to south-west: it lies on the borders of a |very narrow dreary heath, being a peninsula, joined to the parish |of Lanford by a neck of land. It is of considerable antiquity, |having been an important port in the time of the Romans, and a |Roman military way may be still traced from hence to Wimbourn. | |The church, dedicated to St. James, was formerly a chapel of ease |to Lanford, but has since been considerably enlarged, and contains |several neat monuments. | |The harbour is considered the best and safest in the channel, as |the ground is every where soft, and water sufficient at spring |tides for vessels of sixteen feet draught to come up to the quay. |Market on Monday and Thursday. | 70|Poor, Hants, 32. | 52|Popham, Hants, 76. A parish containing 5 houses, and 48 |inhabitants. | 50|Popham Lane, Hants, 76. | |Porchester, Hants, 222. A parish containing 132 houses, and 917 |inhabitants. It was anciently called _Port Peris_, and was a |sea-port before Portsmouth. | |Its ancient castle was erected to command the harbour, the walls