UFFCULME, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Tiverton district, Devon. The village stands on the river Culm, 2¾ miles NE of Tiverton-Junction r. station; was anciently called Upculm; was long, from 1266, a market-town; carries on malting, brewing, and woollen manufacture; and has a post-office‡ under Cullompton, and three annual fairs. The parish contains also 8 hamlets, and comprises 6,122 acres. Real property, £11,555. Pop., 2,020. Houses, 441. The manor belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster. Bradfield House has belonged, since the time of King John, to the family of Walrond. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £350. Patron, the Prebendary of Uffculme. The church was recently restored and enlarged, and the tower and spire rebuilt. There are an Independent chapel, two Baptist chapels, an endowed grammar-school with £47 a year, a national school, and charities £11.—The sub-district contains 5 parishes. Acres, 17,778. Pop., 5,229. Houses, 1,128.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))