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Otterton is a village and civil parish in East Devon, England. The parish lies on the English Channel and is surrounded clockwise from the south by the parishes of East Budleigh, Bicton, Colaton Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford and Sidmouth. [1] In 2001 its population was 700, compared to 622 a hundred years earlier. [2]
The church at Otterton, dedicated to St Michael, belonged to the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. After passing through ownership by Syon Abbey in the 15th century, the manor with the advowson was bought by Richard Duke (c. 1515–1572) at the Dissolution of the Monasteries. [1]
Blank map of civil parish boundaries in Devon. ... Otterton: Civil Parish: 660 (2009) St Thomas Rural District [3] Ottery St Mary: Town: 7,692: Ottery St Mary Urban ...
St Michael's church, Otterton. The late 11th tower was part of the priory. Otterton Priory was a priory in Otterton, Devon founded before 1087 and suppressed in 1414. The tower of the parish church is the major remaining structure of the monastery. The manor house probably reuses parts of the monastery's fabric.
Bicton is a civil parish and a former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the town of Budleigh Salterton. The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Colaton Raleigh, Otterton, East Budleigh and Woodbury. [1] According to the 2001 census it had a population of 280.
Otterton: House: 17th century: 30 June 1961 1097486 ... Lychgate 15 Metres South-east of Sowton Parish Church Sowton: Lychgate: c. 1852: 19 March 1987
Depiction incised on monumental brass of Duke's great-nephew Richard III Duke (1567–1641), Otterton Church Richard Duke (c. 1515 – 1572) was a lawyer and served as Clerk of the Court of Augmentations which position assisted him in acquiring large grants of former monastic lands in the West Country following the Dissolution of the Monasteries .
Newton Poppleford and Harpford is a civil parish in East Devon, England. It is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Ottery St Mary, Sidmouth, Otterton, Colaton Raleigh and Aylesbeare. [2] The parish includes the large village of Newton Poppleford, and also includes the smaller settlements of Harpford, Burrow, Southerton and ...