Up-Ottery (St. Mary)
UP-OTTERY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Honiton, hundred of Axminster, Honiton and S. divisions of Devon, 5¼ miles (N. E. by N.) from Honiton; containing 991 inhabitants. The parish comprises 5265 acres, of which 1120 are common or waste. Fairs for cattle are held on March 17th and October 24th. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £15. 5.7½., and in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The great tithes have been commuted for £335, and those of the vicar for £430; there are 76 acres of impropriate glebe, and 4 of vicarial. The church has been enlarged. Here are places of worship for Baptists and Calvinistic Methodists; and at Roridge, in the parish, was anciently a chapel.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.