Editing Cullompton (section)

===Toponymy and orthography===
[[File:GWR luggage labels for Cullompton.jpg|thumb|GWR luggage labels for Cullompton, showing both spellings used]]
The derivation of the name Cullompton is disputed. One derivation is that the town's name means "Farmstead on the [[River Culm]]"<ref name="Hesketh">{{cite book | last = Hesketh  | first = Robert  | title = Devon Placenames  | publisher = Bossiney Books  | year = 2008  | location = [[Launceston, Cornwall|Launceston]]  | isbn =978-1-899383-98-6 }}</ref> with Culm probably meaning knot or tie (referring to the river's [[Meander|twists and loops]]).<ref name="Hesketh" /> The other theory is that it is named after [[Columba of Terryglass|Saint Columba of Tir-de-Glas]], who preached to West Saxons in 549 AD. The Revd Grubb also states that the parish church was probably formerly dedicated to St Columba (although for the last 500 years it has been dedicated to St Andrew) and that tradition records there was an ancient figure or image of Columba.<ref>{{Citation | last = Grubb  | first = Geoffrey W | chapter = St. Columba and Cullompton | page = 16 |year =1986| editor-last = Pugsley| editor-first = David | title = Old Cullompton | publisher = Maslands}}</ref> There are 40 recorded spellings of Cullompton between the first recorded use of the name and the present day,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cullompton.org/spellings-of-cullompton.html|title=Spellings of Cullompton|work=The official Cullompton site|access-date=7 June 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080403044348/http://www.cullompton.org/spellings-of-cullompton.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 3 April 2008}}</ref> and even as late as the mid-nineteenth century three spellings were in use: the post office spelled it ''Cullompton''; in their 1809 first edition the [[Ordnance Survey]] map used ''Cullumpton'' and the railway station sign said ''Collumpton''. The railway station sign was changed to Cullompton in 1874 and the Ordnance Survey used Cullompton in the edition of their map published in 1889.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grant|first1=W.C.|  first2=H |last2=Overy| first3=J. M. |last3=Forster | title =The Town on the Culm| publisher = Maslands  | location =Tiverton|year=1985}}. This book contains details of the nineteenth-century controversy over the correct name through a series of letters published in the local papers and other documents.</ref> It is affectionately known as ''Cully''.<ref name="BoC 2001 9">The Book of Cullompton, 2001, p. 9</ref>