Plastow Family History
Plastow Name Meaning
from Middle English plei(e) ‘play game performance’ + stou(e) ‘place location’ (Old English plegstōw *plægstōw). The surname may be for someone who lived near a place for physical or theatrical play or for someone from any of numerous places so named such as Plaistow (Essex Surrey Gloucs Devon Sussex) Playstow (Herts) Pleystowe (Surrey) or Plastow (Hants). Compare Plested .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016