How is "Plaxtol" pronounced ?

[Siamese Girl]

Just having a quick look at this as it is now bugging me (it has probably driven you mad by now ) but I found these references to "Plastow" "The Plastow Level", and "Plastow, part of Kent" from an old map of 1789.

http://archivemaps.com/mapco/kent1789/kent02_01.htm

It appears to me that it is closer to modern Plaistow, East London rather than Bromley, but not that far from the latter. There is also a Plastow Lane in Bromley with your spelling.

The maps are very interesting - it's amazing how the place names have changed - not a lot but just subtly in 200 odd years.

Surely the Plastow Level must refer to the one north of the river - so wouldn't he have said he was born in Essex? Or am I just getting confused?

Carole

[Nick29]

I think we're both getting confused, Carole - I'm forever trying to get my head around boundary changes 

[Dimps]

Hi,  I live in the area and also used to live in Bromley.  Plaistow is just to the north of Bromley and would be, at most, two miles from either Lee or Eltham.  The name is pronounced Play-stoh, as opposed to Plar-stoh in East London.  Look for Burn Ash Road on google maps, follow this south to Grove Park Station then Sundridge Park Station.  Plaistow is in the vicinity of Sundridge Park Station.

[Nick29]

Thanks Dimps, this is quite an old post.  Since then I've managed to speak to the church archivist at St John's Church in Eltham, where most of my dad's ancestors were buried, and discovered that most of the MARTIN family in that area were related, because of information I found on shared graves.  I still haven't discovered the exact relationship between William and Thomas, though