Description
Uplyme, a parish, with a village, in Devonshire, 4 miles SSE of Axminster station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Lyme; money order and telegraph office, Lyme. Acreage, 3584; population of the civil parish, 830; of the ecclesiastical, 756. There is a parish council consisting of ten members. The manor belonged to Glaston-bury Abbey, passed to the Drakes, and with Rhode Hill mansion belongs now to the Talbot family. A Roman bath, a tessellated pavement, and other Roman relics have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £400 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, and was thoroughly restored in 1876. There are Brethren and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
