Copplestone

For people named Copleston, see Copleston.

Copplestone
Copplestone
Copplestone is located in Devon
Copplestone
Copplestone
Location within Devon
Population1,253 (2011)
OS grid referenceSS7602
Civil parish
  • Copplestone
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCREDITON
Postcode districtEX17
Dialling code01363
PoliceDevon and Cornwall
FireDevon and Somerset
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Devon
50°48′N 3°45′W / 50.8°N 3.75°W / 50.8; -3.75

Copplestone (anciently Copelaston, Coplestone etc.[1]) is a village, former manor and civil parish in Mid Devon in the English county of Devon. It is not an ecclesiastical parish as it has no church of its own, which reflects its status as a relatively recent settlement which grew up around the ancient "Copleston Cross" (see below) that stands at the junction of the three ancient ecclesiastical parishes of Colebrooke, Crediton and Down St Mary.[2]

The small parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Sandford, Crediton Hamlets, Colebrooke, Clannaborough, and Down St Mary.[3] According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 894,[4] increasing to 1,253 in 2011.[5] It is situated right in the middle of Devon halfway between Exeter and Barnstaple on the A377, nestled in a valley. Copplestone is a major part of the Yeo electoral ward whose total ward population was 3,488 at the above census.[6]

The Tarka Line railway goes through the middle of the village and calls at Copplestone railway station. Copplestone is surrounded by hills and is not far from Dartmoor, visible to the east and Exmoor to the north, a little farther away. The surrounding countryside has been used for agriculture from before Roman occupation of the area.

  1. ^ Victor Watts, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names. Cambridge University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-521-16855-7.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference P276 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Map of Devon Parishes" (PDF). Devon County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  4. ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Mid Devon Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 27 January 2010
  5. ^ "Parish Population 2011". Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Yeo ward 2011". Retrieved 23 February 2015.