Fourteen hill slope enclosures, dating from the Iron Age have been identified on the Blackdown Hills, and prehistoric remains, from about 100 BC, have been found in Hemyock.

Hemyock is a village in Devon, England.

Hemyock is the largest village on the Blackdown Hills, which is now designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ).

Hemyock was the terminus of the Culm Valley Light Railway that ran for about 100 years from the village to Tiverton Junction.

* Hemyock village website

* Hemyock village trail and map

Until 1896 the village was within Hemyock Hundred in the county of Devon.

The name Hemyock could have originated from the British stream name " Samiaco " ( meaning summer ), other authorities suggest a Saxon origin from a personal name " Hemman " coupled with a Saxon word for a bend or a hook ( occi ).

Hemyock Castle has many similarities with the much better known Bodiam Castle, granted the licence to crenellate in 1385.

Popham became a very wealthy man, and amongst the many estates he owned was Publow in Somerset, Littlecote in Wiltshire, and Hemyock Castle in Devon.

Ornate Water Pump in the centre of Hemyock.

The River Culm flows through Hemyock.

Hemyock was the former home of the St Ivel dairy processing plant, formerly where the butter-spreads ' St Ivel Gold ' and ' Utterly-Butterly ' were produced before being moved to a factory in the north of England.

Hemyock was also the birthplace of the National Federation of Young Farmers ' Clubs.

Hemyock was head of the Hemyock Hundred, an administrative sub-division of the Shire county of Devonshire, under the system of government used during the Saxon period.

The Domesday Book records that the Hemyock Hundred consisted of the manors of: Awliscombe, Bolham Water, Bywood, Churchstanton ( Somerset ), Clayhidon, Culm Davy, Culm Pyne, Culmstock, Dunkeswell, Gorewell, Hemyock, Hole, Ivedon, Mackham, Weston.

On 5 November 1380, King Richard II granted Sir William and Lady Margaret Asthorpe a licence to crenellate the Hemyock manor house ; meaning the permission to fortify it.

Over the centuries, Hemyock Castle had many notable owners including Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham and General Sir John Graves Simcoe the first lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada in 1792.

St. Mary's Church is adjacent to Hemyock Castle, on the other side of St Margaret's Brook.

It rises in the Blackdown Hills at a spring-see OS map-near Culmhead and flows west through Hemyock, then Culmstock ( in the Culm Valley ) to Uffculme.

The River Culm rises at a spring () near Culmhead and flows west through Hemyock, then Culmstock to Uffculme before joining the River Exe on the north-western outskirts of Exeter.

The larger, more southerly area in Devon includes Dunkeswell, Upottery, Smeatharpe, Hemyock, Blackborough, Yarcombe, Membury, Stockland, Sheldon and Cotleigh.

Local iron ores were smelted at Hemyock in small bloomeries ( furnaces ) to produce pure iron until the Middle Ages.

On 5 November 1380, King Richard II granted Sir William and Lady Margaret Asthorpe a licence to crenellate the Hemyock manor house, meaning the permission to fortify it.

Over the centuries, Hemyock Castle had many notable owners including Lord Chief Justice Sir John Popham.

The line closed to passengers in 1963 but served the milk depot at Hemyock until its closure in 1975.

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