Clyst Hydon is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon, England. It was in the Cliston Hundred and has a church dedicated to St Andrew.St Andrew, Clyst Hydon - Devon | Diocese of Exeter The parish is surrounded, clockwise from the north, by the parishes of Cullompton, Plymtree, Payhembury, Talaton, Whimple, Clyst St Lawrence and Broad Clyst.
The village is four miles from Cullompton. It has a primary school, Clyst Hydon Primary;Welcome | Clyst Hydon Primary School other amenities include a pub/restaurant The Five Bells Inn and Restaurant, Clyst Hydon, Devon and a sports club.Clyst Hydon Cricket and Sports Club
From 1971 to 1974 the village was the site of an artists colony which published the radical Beau Geste Press, a small press that worked in the lineage of the Fluxus and mail art movements.Interview with Felipe Ehrenberg, one of the founders of Beau Geste Press, ArtReview
Historic estates Within the parish are situated various historic estates including: AunkRisdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.57; Pevsner, Nikolaus & Cherry, Bridget, The Buildings of England: Devon, London, 2004, p.271
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