Plasketlands
{{Short description|A hamlet in Cumbria, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| official_name = Plasketlands
| civil_parish = Holme St Cuthbert
| coordinates = {{coord|54.807|-3.395|display=inline,title}}
| static_image = Plasketlands Farm - geograph.org.uk - 91805.jpg
| static_image_caption = Plasketlands Farm, c. 2005
| population =
| unitary_england = Cumberland
| lieutenancy_england = Cumbria
| region = North West England
| constituency_westminster = Penrith and Solway
| post_town = MARYPORT
| postcode_district = CA15
| postcode_area = CA
| dial_code = 01900
| os_grid_reference = NY103466
| pushpin_map = United Kingdom Allerdale
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Allerdale, Cumbria
}}
Plasketlands is a small settlement in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert{{cite web|title=Cumbria Atlas (w/ parish boundaries enabled)|url=http://www.cumbriaobservatory.org.uk/instantatlas/Cumbria_Atlas_Single_Map_Electoral_Wards/atlas.html|accessdate=7 August 2015}} in Cumbria, United Kingdom. It is located approximately a quarter-of-a-mile south-west of Goodyhills, a quarter-of-a-mile to the south of the hamlet of Holme St. Cuthbert, and one-and-a-half miles east of Mawbray. Carlisle, Cumbria's county town, is twenty-four miles away to the north-east. The settlement is divided into two distinct parts: High Plasketlands and Plasketlands.{{cite web|title=Google Maps - Plasketlands|url=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.8071124,-3.3958782,15.92z|accessdate=7 August 2015}} Jordan beck, a tributary of the Black Dub beck, flows through Plasketlands on its way to Allonby Bay.
History and etymology
The name Plasketlands comes from the Old English plashet, meaning "a fence of living wood". It was historically spelled several different ways, including Plassegaytt, Plaskitlands, Plascade-lands, and Plesketh Landes.{{cite book|last1=Holme St. Cuthbert History Group|title=Plain People: Bygone Times on the Solway Plain|date=2004|isbn=0954882318}}
Evidence of settlement at Plasketlands goes back thousands of years. A palisade of posts at Plasketlands has been radiocarbon dated to somewhere between 4000 BC and 2500 BC.{{cite web|title=Liverpool museums: Prehistoric period resource assessment|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/mol/archaeology/arf/documents/PREHISTORICASSESSMENT.pdf|accessdate=7 August 2015}}
References
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