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2 unusual facts about Ottery St Mary


Ottery St Mary

The aircraft, an Alidair Vickers Viscount turboprop, flying 62 passengers from Santander to Exeter was eleven miles short of the runway over a wooded area on East Hill, just before the town, when it ran out of fuel and all four engines stopped.

Aircraft regularly pass overhead, mostly turboprops operated by Flybe.


Kathleen Coburn

In 1930 the 25 year-old Coburn visited The Chanter's House at Ottery St Mary in Devon, which had been the home of the Coleridge family for centuries.

Lady chapel

Among other notable English examples of Lady chapels are those at the parish church at Ottery St Mary, Thetford Priory, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, Wimborne Minster, and Highfield Church in Hampshire.


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The King's School, Ottery St Mary

In 1335, Bishop John de Grandisson bought the manor of Ottery St Mary from the Dean and Chapter of Rouen who had owned it since 1061.