Upottery

Upottery
Upottery
	Upottery church
	Upottery Location within Devon
Area	23.89 km2 (9.22 sq mi)
Population	701 (2011 census)
• Density	29/km2 (75/sq mi)
District	East Devon;
Shire county	Devon;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Honiton
Postcode district	EX14
Dialling code	01404
Police	Devon and Cornwall
Fire	Devon and Somerset
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	Honiton and Sidmouth;
	List of places UK England Devon 50°51′47″N 3°08′06″W / 50.863°N 3.135°W

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.^[2]

History

Parts of the parish church of St Mary the Virgin date from the 12th century.^[3] 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.^{[clarification needed]}

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

Housing and demography

Housing type^[1]
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.^[1] 7.8% of the 307 homes had (in 2011) no usual residents.^[1]

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