OTTEREY ST. MARY'S, (Devon) a large T. on the r. Otter, 5 m. from Honiton, on the left-hand of the road from thence to
Exeter, is 135 cm. 161 mm. from London. It belonged anciently to St. Mary's, a mon. in Roan, as some assert; but Camden
says it had the name from St. Mary's Coll. founded here by Grandison Bp. of Exeter, (and suppressed by Pt. in the R. of
Henry V.) for secular priests, to whom he gave the whole manor. Some say the r. had its name from the otters formerly
found in it; yet others call the T. and r. Autre. Here is a Mt. on T. and Fairs on Tu. before Palm-Sunday, and Trinity-Tu.
Since the Diss. the manor has remained in the crown.