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Upottery

Village in Devon, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image	Upottery church (geograph 2571041).jpg
static_image_caption	Upottery church
coordinates
official_name	Upottery
population	701
population_ref	(2011 census)
area_total_km2	23.89
shire_district	East Devon
shire_county	Devon
region	South West England
constituency_westminster	Honiton and Sidmouth
post_town	Honiton
postcode_district	EX14
postcode_area	EX
dial_code	01404

Upottery (originally Up Ottery) is a rural village, civil parish and former manor in East Devon, England.

Location

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.{{cite web |access-date=7 July 2016

History

Parts of the parish church of St Mary the Virgin date from the 12th century. The Viscounts Portman, as in Portman Square and surrounding areas of London, which remain the family hands, held the manor house and main lands here for about two centuries but in 1934 inherited a property in Wiltshire which they substituted for this home, casting off local landholding also to other ownership, on sale.

The former World War II airfield of RAF Upottery is in the outer parts of the parish.

Housing and demography

Type	Number	Percentage
Whole house or bungalow: Detached	227	73.9%
Whole house or bungalow: Semi-detached	51	16.6%
Whole house or bungalow: Terraced (including end-terrace)	18	5.9%
Flat, maisonette or apartment	9	3.1%

Most, 81.6%, of housing is owned (with/without mortgage); the next largest category is 12.0% which is privately rented, next is socially rented which is 3.9% of the stock as residents identified in 2011. 7.8% of the 307 homes had (in 2011) no usual residents.

The United Kingdom Census 2011 recorded the population of the parish as 701.

In media, literature and the arts

Fields and some houses featured in the 2001 television mini-series Band of Brothers.

References

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