Farm Life

As well as a thriving sea fishing trade, Otterton had 13 working farms in the 1840s, and a further 31 spread over the 3,479 farmed acres (according to the 1844…

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The River Otter

The calm, serene walk along the Otter Estuary towards Budleigh Salterton makes it hard to believe that this river was once a busy channel for fishermen and vessels. In fact,…

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Otterton Church School

 Before the Education Act of 1870, parents had to pay for their children to attend school, and therefore most working class children in Otterton were unschooled.  Instead, they served as…

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A Business Community

Farming has always been the underlying business of the village with tenanted farms throughout the parish and even in the 1980s there were five active farms in Fore Street.  …

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