Luppitt
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| Luppitt | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Church of St Mary, Luppitt | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST169066 |
| Location: | 50°51’11"N, 3°10’55"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 444 (2001) |
| Post town: | Honiton |
| Postcode: | EX14 |
| Dialling code: | 01404 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Devon |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Tiverton and Honiton |
Luppitt is a village in the east of Devon about three and a half miles due north of Honiton.
The Luppitt Inn is a public house on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.[1]
History
The village was fomery part of the estate known as Mohuns Ottery, a seat of the Carew family, Barons Carew.[2]
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.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Luppitt) |
References
- ↑ Brandwood, Geoff (2013). Britain's best real heritage pubs. St. Albans: CAMRA. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9781852493042.
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Devon, 1952; 1989 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09596-8page 543
- Rogers, William Henry Hamilton: 'Memorials of the West, Historical and Descriptive, Collected on the Borderland of Somerset, Dorset and Devon' (1888), Chapter 'The Nest of Carew' (Ottery-Mohun)
- Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L. (Ed.): 'The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620' (1895) pp. 134–5: pedigree of Carew of Mohuns Ottery
