 About away is Escot Church, built in 1840 by Sir John Kennaway, the owner of nearby Escot House.In 1999 the A30 through Fairmile was re-routed to a newly built dual carriageway section, about ¼ mile to the north of the previous road.For a few years prior to the completion of the new A30 between Honiton and Exeter, Fairmile was the main focus of direct action protest activities against the new road, with permanent camps on both sides of the river valley.