Ipplepen is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Black Torrington Hundred. It falls within Ipplepen 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 821 in 1801 813 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In the valuation of 1334 it was assessed at £02/19/00. The lay subsidy of 1524 valued the community at £26/10/02. In 1641/2 199 adult males signed the Protestation returns. A market is recorded from 14 cent..

A parish history file is held in Ipplepen 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 Ipplepen 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 115/7,11 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 115NE,SE
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX836667. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX86NW, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.

Illustrations: The image below is of Ipplepen as included in the Library's Etched on Devon's memory website. Other images can be searched for on the local studies catalogue.

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

IPPLEPEN is a grey and rather dismal village, with much bad modern building. The church (St. Andrew) stands well at the head of the village, and is almost entirely a 15th century rebuilding. The Perpendicular windows of the nave are notably good. The font and rood-screen are said to be c. 1430- 50. The pulpit is a magnificent specimen of 15th century art, with canopied niches from which the statuettes have disappeared. There are also two par- close screens.

At Ipplepen was founded c. 1100 a dependent cell of the Augustinian abbey of St. Pierre at Fougeres in Brittany. Remains of Ipplepen priory are said to be incorporated in a house now known as The Priory. Ambrook is first recorded in 1238, and was a medieval franklin's "mansion," of which traces survive in the present house of Great Ambrook.

Battleford, now a small farm, was a Domesday manor. So, too, was Combe Fishacre. Dainton, a hamlet with extensive quarries, is recorded in a Saxon charter of 956.