Mr. Lysons states that the manor of Otterham belonged in the reign of
Edward the Third to the Champernownes, that it came afterwards to the
family of Copleston, that John Saltern died possessed of the manor and
the advowson in 1639, in whose family it continued for about a hundred
years. The manor belongs at present to George Welch Owen, Esq. and the
advowson to Mr. William Chilcott, of Tiverton. Mr. Lysons adds, that a
barton in this parish, sometime the property and the residence of a
family called French, is now the property of Charles Chichester, Esq.
The church is said to be small, and not to contain any thing worthy of
attention.
Otterham measures 2694 statute acres.
Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 1,186 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 67 0 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 141 | 176 | 212 | 227
giving an increase of 61 per cent. in 30 years.