ST MARY'S, a market town in Devonshire, situated 150 miles west of London, and 10 miles east of Exeter. The church is very ancient, and somewhat resembles a cathedral. A very extensive woollen manufactory was lately established here by Sir George Yonge, and Sir John Duntze, Bart. It has no corporation. It derived its name, as some suppose, from the river Otter, and that from the otters formerly found in it. This town was given by King Edward the Confessor to the church of St Mary at Rouen in Normandy; but was afterwards bought by Grandison bishop of Exeter; who made of it a quarter college in 15 Edward III.; and therein placed secular priests, with other ministers, to whom he gave the whole manor, parish tythes, fines, spiritual profits, &c., which amounted to £304l. 2s. 10d. yearly. The population in 1811 was 2880.