Upottery is located within East Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Axminster Hundred. It falls within Honiton Vol 1 Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 795 in 1801 666 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. The lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £09/02/10.

A parish history file is held in Honiton Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.

Maps: The image below is of the Upottery area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765.

On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 48/13 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 48SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is ST202076. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet ST20NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 030, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 192. Geological sheet 311 also covers the area.

Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:

UPOTTERY lies high up the beautiful, pastoral Otter valley, between two great fingers of the Blackdown Hills. The manor, together with that of Rawridge across the river, was bought by Dr. John Addington of London in the later years of the 18th century. His son, Henry Addington, Speaker of the House of Commons, Prime Minister 1801-4, and later 1st Viscount Sidmouth, built a mansion and occasionally resided here. One cannot imagine a more complete change than this from the cares of London and the political world. The present Manor House was built about 1845.

The church (St. Mary) is a much restored 15th century building, of little interest internally. Rawridge was a Domesday manor.