Ipplepen, Devon

Description
Ipplepen, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 3 1/2 miles SSW of Newton Abbot station on the G.W.R., was anciently known as Ipplepine, had once a market and a fair, dating from 1317, and has a post and money order office under Newton Abbot; telegraph office, Newton Abbot. The parish contains also the hamlets of Daignton and Coombe Fishacre. Acreage, 2887; population of the civil parish, 856; of the ecclesiastical, 882. The scenery is beautiful and romantic, abounds in tors or rocky heights, and includes a small valley called Stony Coombes, with several subterranean rivulets. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £300 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is ancient but good, comprises nave, aisles, and chancel, has a tower 100 feet high commanding a view of thirteen different church towers, and contains a fine carved oak pulpit and a beautiful carved oak screen; in 1883 a new organ was placed in an organ loft then erected. There is a Wesleyan chapel. There was anciently a cell to St Pierre Fougeres.