Honiton

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Honiton is a market town and civil parish in East Devon, situated close to the River Otter, 17 miles (27 km) north east of Exeter in the county of Devon. Honiton has a population estimated at 12,154.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834)

Joanne Pavey

ESpañol long-distance runner

Ozias Humphry

British artist (1742-1810)

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician (1820-1894)

Edward Davy

British doctor and scientist (1806–1885)

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Edward Gordon Williams

British rower (1888-1915)

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Maurice Setters

English footballer and manager (born 1936)

William Hayman Cummings

British musician (1831–1915)

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André Laguerre

American sportswriter

Charles William Bowerman

British trade unionist and politician (1851-1947)

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Dick Ebdon

English footballer (1913-1987)

Edward Copleston

British bishop (1776–1849)

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Edwin Power

British physicist (1928-2004)

George Blagdon Westcott

British Royal Navy officer (1753-1798)

George Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey

English earl

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Robert Kennaway Douglas

British museum curator

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Axminster
  8.4 mi away
• Cranbrook
  9.7 mi away
• Bradninch
  10.4 mi away · pop. 2,041
• Bampton
  18.5 mi away
• Bovey Tracey
  25.7 mi away
• Chagford
  29.8 mi away
• Chulmleigh
  30.7 mi away
• North Tawton
  30.8 mi away
• Burnham-on-Sea
  31.4 mi away
• South Molton
  31.8 mi away
• Staverton
  32.3 mi away
• Dartington
  33.3 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Honiton

Honiton lace patterns

Elsie Luxton · 1983

Royal Honiton lace

Elsie Luxton · 1988

Three generations in the Honiton lace trade

Margaret Tomlinson · 1983

Honiton lace industry

Alan S. Cole · 1888

Honiton

J. R. W. Coxhead · 1984

Collard, the Honiton & Dorset potter

Carol Cashmore · 1983

Soils in Devon 1

Great Britain. Soil Survey (England & Wales). · 1971

The romance of the wool, lace and pottery trades in Honiton

J. R. W. Coxhead · 1963

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers