Ottery St Mary has a whole of host of famous names and history attached to the town. 

Tourism website Visit Ottery, has compiled a list on its website. Listing all the blue plaques around town, and when you click on them, its gives you the full history behind the plaques.

Blue Plaques in Ottery St Mary list all the diverse historical past, find out more about the town's history and its connections to the larger region's Maritime Heritage and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge by following the Blue Plaque Trail around the town. 

See the full list on the Visit Ottery website Ottery St Mary's Blue Plaques (visitdevon.co.uk)

There are several plaques to be found across the town, including Raleigh House, The Old Convent, The Cinema, The United Reformed Church, The Old Town Hall, The Old School House, Stafford House (Normandy House) and The Priory

Raleigh House is known as the birthplace of Dr Edward Davy, the pioneer of electric telegraphs, the house is also said to stand on the site of the former home of Sir Walter Raleigh, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and a famous privateer, who would head out on expeditions from Devon

The Cinema, on Yonder Street: Prior to its closure in 1959, Ottery St Mary's cinema had a long and interesting history. In the early 1900s, it was a successful bike sales and repair business before being purchased by an entrepreneur at the end of WWI. He renovated the building and provided the town with its first and only cinema, known then as The Palace. It seated a total of 200 people. 

From them on, it ran as a cinema under a variety of different names and managers until it eventually closed in 1959. 

The United Reformed Church was founded by Robert Collins, the United Reformed Church or the Church of Christ of Protestant Dissenters, remains one of the oldest noncomformist churches in the country. It became affiliated to the Congregational Union in 1848 and became the United Reformed Church in 1972, when the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches amalgamated.