The district also contains the towns of Bampton, Bradninch, Crediton and Cullompton, along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.

Part of the district lies within the Blackdown Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The area of Mid Devon, according to the Office for National Statistics Census table KS101EW is 91293.48 hectares, or 912.9348 sq kilometres, or 352.5 square miles.

Excavations at the summit in 1994 uncovered traces of Early Iron Age settlement.

[8] The whole district is also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.

Visitors are able to walk along its banks or take a trip down the canal in a horse drawn barge.

It has a number of other collections, such as dolls' houses, a large tapestry showing five local parishes, and a wide range of worsted wool spinning and weaving machines.