Upottery (originally Up Ottery) is a rural village,
civil parish and former
manor
Manor may refer to:
Land ownership
*Manorialism or "manor system", the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of medieval Europe, notably England
*Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism
*Man ...
in
East Devon, England.
Location
Upottery takes up both sides of the upper vale of the
Otter
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which flows to the
English Channel south of
Ottery St Mary and is a
clustered village
A ''Haufendorf'' is an enclosed village with irregular plots of land and farms of greatly differing scale, usually surrounded by a stockade fence (German: ''Ortsetter''). They are typically found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, whence the nam ...
.
Its northern limit forms the border with
Somerset. Clockwise from which are the Devon parishes of
Yarcombe,
Stockland
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History
Stockland was founded in 1952 by Albert Scheinb ...
,
Cotleigh,
Monkton Monkton may refer to:
Places
;United Kingdom
*Monkton, Devon, England
*Monkton, Kent, England
*Monkton, Pembroke, Wales
* Monkton, South Ayrshire, Scotland
*Monkton, Tyne and Wear, England
* Monkton, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
;Canada
*Monkton, Onta ...
,
Luppitt and
Clayhidon.
History
Parts of the
parish church of St Mary the Virgin date from the 12th century.
The
Viscounts Portman, as in Portman Square and surrounding areas of London, which remain the family hands, held the manor house and main lands here for about two centuries but in 1934 inherited a property in Wiltshire which they substituted for this home, casting off local landholding also to other ownership, on sale.
The former World War II airfield of
RAF Upottery is in the outer parts of the parish.
Housing and demography
Most, 81.6%, of housing is owned (with/without mortgage); the next largest category is 12.0% which is privately rented, next is socially rented which is 3.9% of the stock as residents identified in 2011.
[ 7.8% of the 307 homes had (in 2011) no usual residents.][
The United Kingdom Census 2011 recorded the population of the parish as 701.
]
In media, literature and the arts
Fields and some houses featured in the 2001 television mini-series '' Band of Brothers''.
References
External links
upottery.com
website supported by Upottery Parish Council
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Villages in Devon