Upton Pyne

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

UPTON-PYNE, a parish in the hundred of WONFORD, county of DEVON, 3½ miles (N. by W.) from Exeter, containing 431 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £23. 6. 8., and in the patronage of Sir S. H. Northcote, Bart. The church contains a good painting of the Last Supper. The river Exe bounds the parish on the south. About £10 per annum, the gift of Thomas Weare, is applied to the education of poor children.