Uffculme is a village located in Mid-Devon, England. Situated in the Blackdown Hills, close to the M5 motorway, Uffculme is on the upper reaches of the River Culm from which it derives its name (Upculm). Historically, it was a parish in Bampton Hundred, under the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Uffculme, Salisbury Cathedral. Uffculme is of particular interest to local historians because the wills & inventories for Uffculme have survived due to the parish being a peculiar of the Bishop of Salisbury, and hence they were not among the Devon probate records that were destroyed by fire in Exeter following a bombing raid during the Baedeker Blitz of World War II.
A grammar school was founded in 1701 by Nicholas Ashford who endowed it with £47 per annum. Uffculme now has two schools (a primary and secondary), 2 public houses (The Ostler & The St George), a male only working mens club (the Uffculme Mens Institute), 3 churches, a few shops and a take away. Uffculme School is a specialist school in maths and computing. Uffculme once housed a fireworks factory, which famously exploded. The singer Joss Stone lived in Ashill, a hamlet in the parish of Uffculme, and attended Uffculme School. More on Uffculme 

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