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Population
  
444 (2001 Census)

Civil parish
  
Luppitt

Country
  
England

Shire county
  
Devon

Dialling code
  
01404

OS grid reference
  
ST169066

Region
  
South West

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

District
  
East Devon

UK parliament constituency
  
Tiverton and Honiton

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Luppitt is a village and civil parish in East Devon situated about 6 kilometres (4 mi) due north of Honiton.

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Map of Luppitt, UK

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 is a public house on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

Historic estates

  • Mohuns Ottery, a seat of the Carew family, Barons Carew. 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

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