Ipplepen
Location
Ipplepen is situated about 3.7 miles (6 km) to the southwest of the market town of Newton Abbot, 5.6 miles (9 km) from the southern edge of Dartmoor and about 6.8 miles (11 km) to the northwest of Torquay. Other nearby villages include Torbryan, Broadhempston, Denbury, Marldon and Abbotskerswell.
Amenities
Ipplepen now has only one public house, The Wellington, situated close to the heart of the village on the main road. The Plough Inn, adjacent to the Conservative Club, closed in January 2009 and was then put up for sale. The village has a primary school, park, bowling club, village hall, post office, general store, two churches and a medical centre. The local football club features two senior sides and seven youth teams. The village library closed temporarily in 2008, while a new library building was being built. The main transport link is the A381 road to Newton Abbot and Totnes.
St Andrew’s Anglican parish church is a Grade I listed building.
Population
The population of Ipplepen during 1801 and 1901 was 821 and 813 respectively. By the time of the 1991 Census in the United Kingdom, the population of 'Ipplepen with Torbryan' had increased to 2446. The average age was 42 years and 68.9% were reported as being in 'good health'.
Archaeology
Archaeological excavations in Ipplepen have found Roman coins, a portion of a Roman road, a Roman-era butcher’s shop and various broken ceramics of Mediterranean and Gallic origin, which once contained wine, olive oil and garum (fish sauce). During 2015, an important Roman cemetery was uncovered by a team from the University of Exeter. Tests on one skeleton revealed that activity continued at the site for 350 years after the end of the Roman occupation of Britain (c. 410 AD). Archaeologists said that "the discoveries were both nationally and regionally important." The site was originally discovered by metal detectorists.
Notable residents
Notable residents of the past and present include:
- Rev John Hewett (1830–1911), was a formal rural dean of Ipplepen.
- Sir William Robert Patrick Knox-Johnston (b. 1939) is a British sailor. In 1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe.
- Sir Alfred Langler (1865–1928), journalist and editor.
- Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870–1907), journalist, sportsman, editor & author. He is buried within the graveyard of St Andrew’s Church next to his parents.
- David St John Thomas (1929–2014), writer and publisher, first ran the publishing house of David & Charles from his house at Ipplepen, before moving to Newton Abbot railway station.
- William John Wills (1834–1861), explorer of Australia, died in the Burke and Wills expedition.
References
- ^ City Population. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ^ City Population. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ^ "Ipplepen Bowling Club Offical Club Website". Ipplepen Bowling Club.
- ^ "Ipplepen Athletic Football Club Official Club Website". Team Expert Websites.
- ^ "Village library battle moves to next stage". Torquay Herald Express. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ "Church of St Andrew, Ipplepen, Devon". Britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Specifically, the archaeologists found Samian ware.
- ^ "Ipplepen: New Discoveries on the Edge of the Roman Empire". Torquay Museum. Archived from the original on 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Ipplepen Iron Age Settlement – Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon". The Megalithic Portal. Archived from the original on 23 September 2018.
- ^ "Roman oil and wine pottery found at Ipplepen dig site". BBC News. 20 June 2017.
- ^ Morris, Stephen (16 September 2019). "New finds beef up case for redrawing map of Roman empire". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Roman cemetery: Fifteen skeletons found at Ipplepen dig". BBC News. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ Jessica E. Saraceni. "Roman Roadside Cemetery Unearthed at Ipplepen – Archaeology Magazine". Archaeology.org. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ Venn, John Archibald (1954). Alumni cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 348. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ "Sailing legend crosses the line". BBC News.
- ^ "Biography – Sir Alfred Langler – Australian Dictionary of Biography". Anu.edu.au. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ Parkinson, Judy. "Mr McIntyre was one of those teachers you could have a laugh with". tes.com. Tes Global Ltd. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "True spirit of the game". Western Morning News. 13 March 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2024 – via Newsbank.
- ^ "Publication of the Hound of the Baskervilles". History Today.
- ^ "Earliest Wodehouse satires discovered". The Guardian.
- ^ Thomas, David St John (1981). "Why we're here". Good Books Come from Devon — the David & Charles twenty-first birthday book. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. pp. 1, 12–13. ISBN 0-7153-8139-3.
- ^ "September 2019 Newsletter". Ipplepen Local History Club.
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