Clyst Hydon - St Andrews Church (geograph 3945309)

Clyst Hydon is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the county of

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

, England. It was in the Cliston Hundred and has a church dedicated to St Andrew. The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of

Cullompton Cullompton () is a town and civil parish in the district of Mid Devon and the county of Devon, England. It is north-east of Exeter and lies on the River Culm. In 2011 the parish as a whole had a population of 8,499 while the built-up area of ...

, Plymtree, Payhembury, Talaton,

Whimple Whimple is a village and civil parish in East Devon in the English county of Devon, approximately due east of the city of Exeter, and from the nearest small town, Ottery St Mary. It has a population of 1,642, recounted to 1,173 for the vill ...

, Clyst St Lawrence and Broad Clyst. The village is four miles from

. It has a primary school, Clyst Hydon Primary; other amenities include a pub/restaurant and a sports club. From 1971 to 1974 the village was the site of an artists colony which published the radical Beau Geste Press, a small press that worked in the lineage of the

Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...

and

mail art Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service. It initially developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence Scho ...

movements.

Historic estates

Within the parish are situated various historic estates including: *

Aunk Aunk (anciently Anke) is a small hamlet and former manor in the parish of Clyst HydonPevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.271 in East Devon, England. The place-name is of Celtic origin along with ...

Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.57;

Pevsner, Nikolaus Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...

& Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.271

References

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