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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 ...
The town hall was also used as a drill hall by 25th (Ottery St Mary) Devonshire Rifle Volunteer Corps which evolved to become F Company, 3rd Battalion Exeter and South Devon Volunteers in 1880. [7] After the local board was succeeded by an urban district in 1894, [ 8 ] the newly-formed council adapted the town hall for its council meetings and ...
Pixie Day is a tradition that takes place in Ottery St. Mary, England, annually on the Saturday nearest Mid-Summer's Day in June. [1] Dating from 1954, and based on a pamphlet written by R. F. Delderfield for the 500th anniversary of the installation of the bells of the Church of St. Mary, [2] [3] the event commemorates a legend of Ottery St. Mary's 'pixies' being banished from the town (where ...
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 Tumbling Weir is a circular weir in the town of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England that allows water from a leat or man-made stream to reach the River Otter. The Tumbling Weir, Ottery St Mary Close-up of Tumbling Weir. It is apparently a rare design in that the water enters through a circular opening at the top that is surrounded by the stream.
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.
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The village is 3 miles (5 km) from Ottery St Mary [1] and it has a church called St Michael. [2] The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Awliscombe, Honiton, Sidmouth, Ottery St Mary, Feniton and Buckerell. [3] In 2021 the parish had a population of 838. [4]