UPLYME IN WHITE'S DIRECTORY OF 1850 |
Uplyme, a large scattered village, is pleasantly situated at the most eastern extremity of Devon, only about a mile NW of the town and sea port of Lyme Regis in Dorsetshire. Its parish is a suburb of the town and comprises 1057 inhabitants and 3149 acres of land. The manor was anciently held by Glastonbury Abbey and afterwards passed to the Drake and Tucker families. The Hon. Sir John Talbot KCB, Admiral of the Blue, is now lord of the manor and owner of a great part of the parish. He has a handsome seat here called Rhode Hill House. Robert Bouchier Wrey Esq. of Ware Cliff House; James Davidson Esq. and the Rev C. W. Ethelston MA have estates in the parish. The latter is also patron and incumbent of the rectory. The glebe is 35 acres and the Rectory House is a handsome residence which was enlarged and much improved in 1838, when the tithes were commuted for £461 per annum.
The church (St Peter and St. Paul) is an ancient structure with a remarkably low tower. The Methodists and Baptists have chapels here. In this parish was born that skilful Geographer Nathaniel Carpenter, who published several learned works. |
 |
Uplyme church in 2006 ©Richard J. Brine |
RESIDENTS John Adams, schoolmaster James Boon, woolstapler James Brockway, Hunter's Lodge Rev. Charles Wickstead Ethelston MA, The Rectory Mrs E. P. Gribble Gabriel Hallier, Victualler, The Black Dog William Marshall, Parish Clerk Charles Randel, Victualler, the Talbot Arms Rev. E Duncan Rhodes BD, sinecure rector of Ermington*, Woodhouse Admiral Hon. Sir John Talbot, Rhode Hill House Robert Bourchier Wrey Esq. Ware Cliff House BLACKSMITHS Richard Dean James Welsman CARPENTERS John Butcher John Lockyear Job Moore FARMERS William Clarke Benjamin Davey William Davey Job Fowler & Son Samuel Gay Thornhill Gay William Gratton John Hansford William Pattison Robert Symes, Ware Robert Vincent George Webb GROCERS Job H. Fowler Robert H. Matthews J. Mountstephen SHOWMAKERS John Cox John Hoare William Woolcott
*When a rector of a parish neither resides nor performs duty at the church gifted to him as his "living" but has a vicar under him, endowed and charged with the cure thereof, this is termed a sinecure living - now of course, abolished. |
© M.E. Brine. This page last updated
4 March, 2013
|