The village is the most southerly of six parishes named after the River Clyst. It fell within the Hundred of East Budleigh, and the ecclesiastical Deanery of Aylesbeare. The parish formerly contained Marsh Barton, now the site of an industrial estate within the Exeter City Council area.
The church, with a red sandstone tower, is dedicated to St George. It was completely rebuilt in 1854-59, gutted by fire in an air raid in 1940, and again rebuilt in 1952. The Lady Seaward Primary School was endowed by Lady Hannah Seaward in 1705 and rebuilt in 1859. It is described by Pevsner as "unspoilt" and "picturesque". The Old Rectory dates from the 18th century.
The cache is a small lock and lock container situated in a lovely spot. Please take care with the cache when retrieving and hiding.
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast, Damian from Winter Foxes has created and updates a list of cachers who has found 10 or more little bridges and can be found here, if you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan on stanthews@aol.com and he will give you a number for your bridge, to qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xx then name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to Damian’s list.