plestors

Noun

plestor (plural plestors)

1. An open space in a village where fairs or markets were held; became village greens.
   • At the south corner of the plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a Shrew-Ash.1842, John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, Observations on popular antiquities