IPPLEPEN, a parish in the hundred of HAYTOR,
county of DEVON, 3 miles (S. S.W.) from Newton-
Abbot's, containing, with the chapelry of Woodland,
1048 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £26. 2. 3., endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £1100 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and- Canons of
Windsor. The church, dedicated to St. John the Bap-
tist, has a handsome screen and an enriched wooden
pulpit: it formerly belonged, with some adjoining lands,
to the priory of St. Peter de Fulgeriis in Brittany, and
attached to it was a cell to that establishment. Ipplepen
had the privilege of a market and fairs before 1320.
The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship here.