# Botusfleming

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**Botus Fleming** or **Botusfleming** (Cornish: *Bosflumyes*) is a village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) in southeast [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall), England, United Kingdom.[1] The parish population was 766 at the [2021 census](/source/2021_United_Kingdom_census).[2] The village is about three miles north-west of [Saltash](/source/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](/source/Plymouth,_Devon).

## 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](/source/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](/source/Georgian_architecture) which is a [grade two* listed building](/source/Listed_building#Categories_of_listed_building) incorporating fabric from the earlier building.[5][6] [Michael Loam](/source/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)](/source/Mary_(mother_of_Jesus)).[7]
- The Rising Sun pub was voted number 5 in *Britain's Good Pub Guide 2009*.

## Demographics

Census population of Botusfleming parish Census Population Households 2001 783 2011[8] 771 319 2021[2] 766 330

## References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 201 *Plymouth & Launceston* ISBN 978-0-319-23146-3

1. Table PP002 - Sex, from ["Parish Profiles"](https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census_2021_pp). Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 August 2024.

1. Beacham, Peter & Pevsner, Nikolaus (2014). *Cornwall*. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12668-6; p. 112

1. Mee, Arthur, ed. (1937) *Cornwall*. (The King's England.) London: Hodder & Stoughton; pp. 33-34

1. Pevsner, N. (1970) *Cornwall*; 2nd ed., revised by E. Radcliffe. Penguin; p. 44-45

1. ["Moditonham House, Botusfleming"](http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-60760-moditonham-house-botusfleming-). British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 17 June 2013.

1. ["parish population 2011"](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/BotusFleming/index.html#Population). Retrieved 9 February 2015.

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