Luppitt

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

LUPPITT, a parish in the hundred of AXMINSTER,county of DEVON, 4½ miles (N.) from Honiton, containing739 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, ratedin the king's books at £13. 6. 10½. John Eyde, Esq.and others were patrons in 1809, The church, dedicatedto St. Mary, has a stone screen and font in theearly English style. Here are remains of the ancientresidence of the Mohuns; they were succeeded by theCarews, who added a chapel to the mansion, and endowedit with £3. 6. 8. a year. On the brow of a hillwithin the parish is an old fortification, called DumptonFort.