LUPPITT, a parish in the hundred of AXMINSTER,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (N.) from Honiton, containing
739 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated
in the king's books at £ 13. 6. 10J. John Eyde, Esq.
and others were patrons in 1809, The church, dedicated
to St. Mary, has a stone screen and font in the
early English style. Here are remains of the ancient
residence of the Mohuns; they were succeeded by the
Carews, who added a chapel to the mansion, and endowed
it with £3. 6. 8. a year. On the brow of a hill
within the parish is an old fortification, called Dumpton
Fort.