Ermington is a village and civil parish located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the town of Ivybridge in the county of Devon, England.

Ermington takes its name from the River Erme, along with the Old English place-name elements -ing- and tůn ("estate, enclosure").

[2] Near the boundary of the parish there is a place called Penquit (pronounced, at least in the 1930s, ['pænkɪt]), whose name is one of relatively few in English to derive from Common Brittonic, perhaps being in continuous use since the time of the kingdom of Dumnonia.

The name Penquit is first attested in 1238, as Pencoyt; it derives from the words that survive in modern Welsh as penn ("head, top, summit, end") and coed ("wood").

[8] The school uniform colours are navy and grey, it has about 150 students, who are transferred to Ivybridge Community College, located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north, for secondary education at the end of year 6.