[1] The name of the hamlet derives from the Middle English word "pludde" or "plodde", meaning a pool or puddle.

[3] Occasional building continued at the Pludds after 1840 and a beerhouse called the Royal Oak had opened by 1891.

[3] In the late 19th and early 20th century there was a coal shaft known as "Pluds" just southwest of the hamlet, which formed part of the Lydbrook Colliery.

[4] The hamlet had shops, a beerhouse, a choral society, and a cricket club, but these had all been closed or been disbanded by 1990.

[3] Media related to The Pludds at Wikimedia Commons This Gloucestershire location article is a stub.