Notable People
The painter and architect John Shute was born in Cullompton, Richard Crosse, painter was born in Knowle (a hamlet in the parish of Cullompton), the architect Charles Fowler was also born in Cullompton and the Puritan clergyman Thomas Manton was town lecturer here around 1644. The engineer William Froude lived in Cullompton and was churchwarden from 1842–44. WG Hoskins died on 11 January 1992 in Cullompton. The singer Joss Stone lives near Cullompton.
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