Botusfleming Explained

Country:	England
Map Type:	Cornwall
Coordinates:	50.43°N -4.248°W
Official Name:	Botus Fleming
Cornish Name:	Bosflumyes
Population Ref:
Civil Parish:	Botus Fleming
Unitary England:	Cornwall
Lieutenancy England:	Cornwall
Region:	South West England
Constituency Westminster:	South East Cornwall
Post Town:	SALTASH
Postcode District:	PL12
Postcode Area:	PL
Dial Code:	01752
Os Grid Reference:	SX 404 614
Static Image Name:	East_window_of_St_Mary's_church_-_Botusfleming_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1599627.jpg
Static Image Caption:	Pictorial main three-panes of east window of St Mary's church in well-illuminated glass

Botus Fleming or Botusfleming (kw|Bosflumyes) is a village and civil parish in southeast Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.^[1] The parish population was 766 at the 2021 census.^[2] The village is about three miles north-west of Saltash at . There is a public house (the Rising Sun), a market garden and a small colony of artists, but the village is mostly a dormitory area for Plymouth.

Parish church

The parish church is dedicated to St Mary and has a western tower and a fine arcade between the nave and the north aisle. The church was restored in 1872 by Henry Eliott; this restoration included new roofs, floors, pews and glazing. The font is of Polyphant stone, probably 14th century in date. In a field near the church is an obelisk in memory of William Martyn built in 1762.^[3]

In the church is a stone effigy of a knight in armour; he is thought to be Stephen le Fleming who was a medieval Crusader and perhaps left his name to the place.^[4]

Other buildings

Moditonham House is the site of the medieval castle of the Moditons and is now a large Georgian house which is a grade two* listed building incorporating fabric from the earlier building.^[5] ^[6] Michael Loam, a Cornish engineer who introduced the first man engine (a device to carry men up and down the shaft of a mine) into the UK died here.
The Bidwell is a 20th-century restored 14th century constructed well (with a roof) on a main street in the village, with a 19th-century statue of Saint Mary (mother of Jesus).
The Rising Sun pub was voted number 5 in Britain's Good Pub Guide 2009.

Demographics

Census population of Botusfleming parish
scope=col	Census	scope=col	Population	scope=col	Households
scope=row	2001	783
scope=row	2011^[7]	771	319
scope=row	2021	766	330

Notes and References

Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 Plymouth & Launceston
Table PP002 - Sex, from Web site: Parish Profiles . Office for National Statistics . 5 August 2024.
Beacham, Peter & Pevsner, Nikolaus (2014). Cornwall. New Haven: Yale University Press. ; p. 112
Mee, Arthur, ed. (1937) Cornwall. (The King's England.) London: Hodder & Stoughton; pp. 33-34
Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 44-45
Web site: Moditonham House, Botusfleming. British Listed Buildings. 17 June 2013.
Web site: parish population 2011. 9 February 2015.