Luppitt is a village and
civil parish
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in
East Devon
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situated about due north of
Honiton
Honiton () is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, Devon, River Otter, north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. Honiton has a population estimated at 12,154 (based on 2021 census).
History
The ...
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St Mary's church, Luppitt, is a Grade I listed building. The font is probably Norman but may be late Anglo-Saxon; the bowl is covered with elaborate sculpture and the east face features a martyrdom.
The historian
William Harris was preacher at the village's
Presbyterian
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chapel from 1741 to 1770.
Towards the end of his life, the painter
Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) had a cottage called Marlpits on Luppitt Common, in which he painted a number of views of the neighbourhood.
The
Luppitt Inn is a
public house
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on the
Campaign for Real Ale
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History
The organisation was founded on 16 ...
's
National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors
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Historic estates
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Mohuns Ottery, a seat of the Carew family, Barons Carew.
[ Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.543] See:
William Henry Hamilton Rogers (1823-1913), ''Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon'', Exeter, 1888, Chapter ''The Nest of Carew'' (Ottery-Mohun). See also:
Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pp. 134–5, pedigree of Carew of Mohuns Ottery.
References
External links
* http://www.luppitt.net/
Villages in Devon
Civil parishes in Devon
East Devon District
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