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Ottery St Mary, known as "Ottery", is a town and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England, on the River Otter, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Exeter on the B3174. At the 2001 census, the parish, which includes the villages of Metcombe, Fairmile , Alfington , Tipton St John , Wiggaton, and (until 2017) West Hill , had a ...
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The village has a primary school and a village hall, which is located by the local convenience store in the centre of the village. Previously part of the parish of Ottery St Mary, West Hill was made into a parish in its own right in April 2017. [1] The parish had a population of 2,109 in 2021. [2]
Upottery takes up both sides of the upper vale of the Otter which flows to the English Channel south of Ottery St Mary and is a clustered village. Its northern limit forms the border with Somerset. Clockwise from which are the Devon parishes of Yarcombe, Stockland, Cotleigh, Monkton, Luppitt and Clayhidon. [2]
It remained in that use until February 2017, when the library service relocated to the former Natwest Bank building in Silver Street. [11] Following extensive refurbishment works, the Ottery St Mary Heritage Society, which had operated through displays in a hotel since it was founded in 1999, moved into the old town hall.
Thorne in the parish of Ottery St Mary in Devon is an historic estate situated on the west side of the River Otter [1] opposite the town of Ottery St Mary. The site is today occupied by Thorne Farm (much of the land of which has been built over by a modern housing estate known as Thorne Farm Way) situated to the immediate north of the town's school and hospital and to the immediate south of ...
The south transept (bell tower) houses the Ottery St Mary astronomical clock, one of the oldest surviving mechanical clocks in the country. It is commonly attributed to Bishop John de Grandisson , who was Bishop of Exeter (1327–69) and adheres to Ptolemaic cosmology with the Earth at the centre of the solar system.
Ottery may refer to: Ottery, Cape Town; Ottery Hundred, Devon, England Ottery St Mary. Ottery St Mary A.F.C. Ottery St Mary astronomical clock; Ottery St Mary railway station; The King's School, Ottery St Mary; River Ottery, Cornwall, England; Upottery, Devon, England