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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 ...
Ottery St Mary parish registers are held in the Devon Record Office and begin in 1601. Sir Ernest Mason Satow , scholar, diplomat and Japanologist, is buried in the churchyard, and a plaque inside the church, originally at the British Legation chapel in Peking, commemorates his life.
The south transept of the church of St Mary in Ottery St Mary houses the astronomical clock, [1] one of the oldest surviving mechanical clocks in England.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.
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. The building was officially re-opened by the mayor, Paul Bartlett, as the Ottery St Mary Heritage Museum on 6 October 2022.
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 ...
William Sherman (fl.1567), who purchased Knightstone, was the son of John Sherman of Ottery St Mary, and was the grandson of Robert Sherman of Yaxley in Suffolk. [14] On the fireplace of the great hall is sculpted the date 1567 and his initials "WS". [15]
The King's School is an 11-18 secondary school with just over 1100 students and 100 staff. [citation needed] In 1335, Bishop John de Grandisson bought the manor of Ottery St Mary from the Dean and Chapter of Rouen who had owned it since 1061.
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 ...