Tiverton and Honiton is a rural seat with a large number of small villages, some set in the attractive valleys of the rivers Exe, Culm and Taw. The River Taw is famous as the setting for stories about Tarka the Otter.
The main towns are small, the largest being Tiverton with a population of 17,500, which serves the local areas as a shopping, industrial and distribution centre. There is a tradition of manufacturing here which was started by mill owners from northern England harnessing the water power of the river valleys.
The seat is divided between two local authorities - Mid and East Devon. Independents and Lib Dems vie for control in the former; the Conservatives tend to dominate in the latter. The two political sides of the seat are separate geographically, too. In the former, rolling farmland punctuated by small market towns predominates. In the latter, Honiton is closer to the elderly, conservative profile of the coastal resorts to its south.
This constituency hit the headlines during the last election campaign when Angela Browning became the first Tory MP to issue an election address ruling out Euro membership.