Luppitt

Luppitt is a village and civil parish in East Devon situated about 6 kilometres (4 mi) due north of Honiton.

Luppitt

Parish church of St Mary
Luppitt
Location within Devon
Population444 (2001 Census)
OS grid referenceST169066
Civil parish
  • Luppitt
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHoniton
Postcode districtEX14
Dialling code01404
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

The historian William Harris was preacher at the village's Presbyterian 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

The Luppitt Inn is a public house on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.[1]

Historic estates
  • Mohuns Ottery, a seat of the Carew family, Barons Carew.[2] 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.
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References
  1. Brandwood, Geoff (2013). Britain's best real heritage pubs. St. Albans: CAMRA. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9781852493042.
  2. Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.543



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