Uplowman Athletic play in the Devon and Exeter Football League. In 1992 Phil Adcock, who had played for Tiverton Town, Elmore and Willand Rovers, and Andy Bolt who had played most of his career at Westexe, sat in the Redwoods, over a pint, and decided to start the club. Derek Palmer was the landlord of the Redwoods at the time, he also owned the field where the pitch is today. He was happy for Phil and Andy to get something going using the field and, what was, the old bar at the Redwoods as changing rooms and showers.
Andy went straight to work preparing the field for friendlies before they entered into the Exeter and District Sunday league, Phil taking the reigns as Manager. The following year, 1993, Uplowman then joined the Devon and Exeter Football League with Richard Norman as manager.
Geoff Holley, who still watches every game he can, was the first ever Chairman of Uplowman.
Derek unfortunately had to sell the field. Another chat in the Redwoods followed, Andy, Pat Adcock and John Crook discussed building a new village hall, a meeting soon followed that was well attended by the village and soon after, with much help from various grants, a new hall with changing facilities was built.
The club has steadily progressed through the leagues over the past 17 years. A reserve side was introduced when Ashley Perrott came forward looking to run a team in 2002, Ashley's team had successive promotions and has since had more success under Mark Washington winning the East Devon Area Intermediate Cup in 2008.
Many other well known names in the Tiverton footballing circuit have been connected with Uplowman over the years, Darren Partridge, Jamie Gibson, Darren Pearce, Gordon Mitchell, Steve Hill, Paul Belworthy, Craig Mogford, Ian Edgcumbe and Ben Hellier (current longest serving player at the cross) to name but a few. More recently quality players like Kevin Mills, Jordan Copp and Bret Andrews have joined the club which goes to show how far we have come since 1992. | 
