[9] On St Andrew's Hill, to the north-west of Cullompton town centre, two Roman forts were discovered in 1984 by aerial photography carried out for Devon County Council.

At the time of the Norman Conquest, it was held by the Lady Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, the widow of Godwin, Earl of Wessex and mother of King Harold II.

[9] The five prebends of Cullompton (Colebrook, Hineland, Wiever, Esse, Upton) were presented by William the Conqueror to Battle Abbey in Sussex and were later held by St Nicholas Priory, Exeter.

[18] In August 1642, during the English Civil War Mr Ashford and Richard Culme – then Sheriff of Devon attempted to have their commission read in Cullompton, but were opposed by the local parish constable, Walter Challs, and by the people of the town.

[45] but this plan was prevented when a group formed to oppose the proposal to purchase the site for a new town hall were elected to two thirds of the council seats in May 2011.

[46] In June 2011, it was announced that two local businesspeople had purchased the site[47] and the building was demolished in March 2012 to make space for a car park.

The Wellington based firm Fox Brothers had a branch factory built in 1890 and made high quality woolen and worsted cloth until 1977.

One of the major products of the factory in the nineteenth century was high-quality sole leather, but during the Second World War, only poor-quality hides, such as buffalo, were allocated to the firm.

The building to the north-west of Exeter Hill, which formerly housed the water-powered bark mill, is now an antiques warehouse and the remains of the leat and tail race can still be seen.

St Regis acquired Higher Kings in the early 1980s and since then the mill has diversified into making a wide range of recycled coloured papers and card.

The brothers who had owned the company moved back into haulage, setting up a new firm which went into receivership in the 1970s and was then bought by Wild Transport of Exeter in 1973.

In 1746 Thomas Bilbie, from Chew Stoke in Somerset, created a new bell foundry (The West of England Church Bellfoundry) in the town, paying an annual rent of £1/13/4 (£1.67) for premises in the Almshouse building.

[77][78] St Michael's and All Angel's in Alphington has a peal of 8 bells cast by Bilbie in Cullompton, at a cost of £108 12 shillings and 8 pence (£1.63) in 1749.

Cullompton's population growth looks set to continue as Mid Devon's core strategy foresees 95 new dwellings being built per year in the period to 2026.

[39] Mole Valley Farmers has a store in the town which sells a wide range of goods including farm requirements, garden supplies and hardware.

[99] The Cullompton street market came to an end in the late 1950s but it was revived for a trial period of seven weeks starting on Saturday 28 June 2008.

She was later consulted by the producers of the long running radio soap opera The Archers and the Cullompton farmers' market was mentioned in one of the episodes.

Business based on the estate include Gregory Distribution,[107][108] who have 27,000 square feet (2,500 m2) of temperature controlled storage which they use for a contract to deliver chilled and frozen goods to Spar stores in the southwest.

[122] The services provided at the site include: the College Surgery Partnership which is a large general practice with ten doctors;[123] complementary therapies provided by Culm Valley Natural Health;[124] self care groups[122] a health food café, a physic garden and a pharmacy run by Alliance Boots.

[136] There are two grade I listed buildings in Cullompton: the fifteenth century parish church (St Andrew's) and the Walronds at 6 Fore Street.

[144] St Andrew's church dates from the fifteenth century[145] and is set back from the main street but despite this its tower is a landmark which is highly visible from the surrounding area.

[15] On the west face are the badly damaged remains of a Crucifixion scene with figures of Edward VI and St George to either side.

[135] The nave and chancel are carried on five pairs of piers and the interior has a boarded wagon roof coloured in blue, crimson and gold which stretches the whole length of the church.

At the time of the construction of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, William Froude – the engineer given responsibility for this section of the line by Isambard Kingdom Brunel – inserted iron stringers to prevent the walls from spreading as a result of vibrations from the trains.

At the rear (western end) of the church are two large pieces of oak which make up a Golgotha which once rested on top of the Rood Screen.

It is fan vaulted in a style inspired by the Dorset aisle at Ottery St Mary and some of the carvings are similar to John Greenway's Chapel at Tiverton.

The front room on the left was the former hall with large oak panels of the Queen Anne period, and a moulded and beamed ceiling.

An alternative Outer Eastern Relief Road crossing the M5 at Old Hill was rejected as the existing bridges would need rebuilding, making the cost prohibitive.

[184] Abbie Brown is another former player who captained England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where they won a bronze medal in the Rugby Sevens competition.

[185] The local football team is Cullompton Rangers who were formed in 1945 and play in Premier Division of the South West Peninsula League.