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A Devonshire market town in the picturesque valley of the small river Culm, 6.5 km (4 miles) NNE of Collumpton, approximately 3-km (2 m) from Junction 27 of the M5.
The town relied heavily on industry, particularly textiles, and White's Devonshire Directory of
1850 recording that "Uffculme had formerly several large woollen and worsted manufactories, and it still has one factory, . . a large brewery, belonging to Mr. W. Furze; several malting houses, and three corn mills...", and
Coldharbour Mill at the western end of the town is now a museum recording Uffculme's textile industry with working machines displaying all stages of wool prepartion.
The comprehensive school of 875 pupils aged 11-16 serves a large rural area of the county.
The annual intake of 175 new pupils is taken mainly from the villages of Burlescombe, Culmstock, Hemyock, Holcombe Rogus, Kentisbeare, Sampford Peverell, Uffculme and Uplowman, with a bout 40 pupils from outside the area.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary.
Uffculme parish is in Bampton Hundred, under the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Uffculme, Salisbury Cathedral.
A Quaker meeting house was built at Spiceland
(Brooks Hill nr. the hamlet of Prescott),
the first meeting house to be built in Devon,
seven years before the Act of Toleration (1689) and seven of the trustees were imrisoned in Exeter goal. The original building was demolished in 1813 and the present, more substantial structure
erected two years later.
The George Inn, built in the 1800's, was a coaching house in the days when the woolen industry thrived.
Coldharbour Mill Working Wool Museum
| The sights and sounds of a Victorian mill - all the stages that a sheeps fleece goes through to make the finished wool. Some of the range of machinery, from the Victorian era to recent times, is demonstrated on guided tours. |
| Opening: April-October: 10.00am-5.00pm
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Uffculme Library tel: 01884 840522
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The Shires Shopping Centre,
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