is it? It looks like a dirt track to me when I drive past it! Or perhaps thats cause I am city folk is it?!!!
I am not in a place called L...you must be be dreaming about me jimjam! (btw I am staying in a yurt in cornwall in sept!!!).
So, Tiverton...does not involve sheep.
It is an overspill of local authority estates from Exeter. There was a lot of crime in some areas of intense population of LA familes in Exeter, so the council moved some families to the outskirts of Exeter, to a village environment called Tiverton. Families, and extensions of families where moved there, in order not to break the family environment up. So large groups of the same families moved there. Transport was limited and they were excluded to an extent from the main city of Exeter, people did not move there, and people did not have much reason to leave - there were schools and shops.
Familes became close to each other, had relationships with other families, and then cousins, brothers, sisters, had relationships with cousins, half brothers, half sisters, and relatively soon, lots of people where related to others.
The area was kept relatively unchecked, to an extent, so certain practices became, 'normal' and interbreeding was usual.
In time Tiverton grew, and became a large town that spread and became linked with Exeter and commuting was more possible, and for the most part the population became more transient.
But an element of inter-breeding was still there, certain immoral (for want of a better word) practices continued, although no longer accepted.