The Luppitt Tithemap

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Choose one of the optoins below to view photos of the 1842 tithemap:

A TEXT BASED menu, used to select photos of the Tithe Map. Use this link if you know the name of the place you are looking for, but are not sure where it is in the parish.
A MAP of Luppitt Parish, used to select photos of the Tithe Map. Use this link if you want to look at photos from a particular area of the parish, or are not sure of the name of the place you would like to see. The images are approximately 1500 x 900 pixels and approx 300KB in size.
A WORD DOC, or TEXT FILE copy of the Luppitt Tithe Map apportionment list of 1842. The apportionment is a record of all the field numbers printed on the tithemap, with a cross-reference to the farm they were part of, as well as information on field size and land-use at the time (e.g. pasture, arable, etc).

Using the apportionment it is possible to determine the extent of each farm in the Parish at that time the tithemap was compiled. The images below use this information to show a representation of the farms and land-use in Luppitt in 1842, as well as from a later survey in 1986.

luppitt tithemap image

As part of a palaeoenvironmental research project on the Blackdown Hills, Exeter University created a line a line drawing copy of the Luppitt tithemap. A scaled down copy is shown to the left, and the original can be reached via the Community Landscapes project website at Exeter University.

Each field shown on the tithemap has now been overlaid with a colour based on which farm it was part of in 1842. See below for more details.

tirhemap fields

From the the base image above, a vector image has been overlaid on each field, so that field related information can be easily and quickly updated in future.
The scaled down image to the left shows the distribution of farms in Luppitt at the time of the Apportionment.
Grey areas indicate Common land, dark brown areas are smallholdings. Note that where a colour is present in two quite different areas of the map it represents two different farms.

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3828 x 2500 pixels - 1.9MB (full size)
1024 x 669 pixels - 273KB
800 x 522 pixels - 182KB

tihemap 1986

The scaled down image to the left shows the distribution of farms in Luppitt in 1986 when a local history exhibition was held. Local landowners entered the details of the fields they owned into a new register provided at the exhibition.
Grey areas indicate Common land, dark brown areas are smallholdings. Fields where ownership is unknown are left blank.

Note that where a colour is present in two quite different areas of the map it represents two different farms.

If you know who owned any of the blank fields in 1986, please get in touch so that the map can be updated.

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3678 x 2402 pixels - 1.8MB (full size)
1024 x 669 pixels - 236KB
800 x 523 pixels - 156KB

landuse image

On this image the colour of the vector image for each field has been changed, so that the colour indicates the land use type from the Apportionment list.

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800 x 522 pixels - 185KB

Key:

Arable	Brown
Meadow	Light-green
Pasture	Mid-green
Building & Courtledge	Black
Garden	Yellow
Copse	Dark green
Orchard	Red
Coppice	Turquoise
Plantation	Light blue
Mow plot	Pink
Droveway	Orange
Common land	Light grey
Waste	Dark blue
Ungrouped	Dark grey