Luppitt
Luppitt is a village and civil parish in East Devon situated about 6 kilometres (4 mi) due north of Honiton.
| Luppitt | |
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 Parish church of St Mary | |
  Luppitt Location within Devon | |
| Population | 444 (2001 Census) |
| OS grid reference | ST169066 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Honiton |
| Postcode district | EX14 |
| Dialling code | 01404 |
| Police | Devon and Cornwall |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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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.
References
- Brandwood, Geoff (2013). Britain's best real heritage pubs. St. Albans: CAMRA. pp. 34–35. ISBN 9781852493042.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.543
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