1851 Census HO107/1863 FOLIO 260
Description of Enumeration District
Superintendent Registrar's District Honiton 280
Registrar's District Honiton 1
No. of Enumeration District 11c
All that part of the parish of Upottery and part of Town Tything as lie between the River Otter and the Turnpike Road called the Honiton and Taunton Road leading from Honiton to Taunton from the Bridge between Rawridge and Upottery Town in a South Easterly direction to Churchenford and from thence in an Easterly direction to the extreme boundaries of the Parish down to the River Otter.

The following table shows the consecutive households on that part of the 1851 Census Enumerator's round between Phillishays Farm and Little Ulcumbe.

was taken, it is possible that one of these homes is where he had lived, perhaps the one inhabited by Samuel and Elizabeth Parkhouse called "Parkhouses Cottage". However, the exact location of this group of cottages is not yet clear. Any information, suggestions even, on this would be much appreciated. It is likely that the cottage would not be what we would today call a cottage and perhaps, being less substantial, probably thatched, made of cob and with an earth floor, it has not survived. One wonders if he paid rent or was it something he erected himself? The Otter Valley location suggests that the land upon which it stood was not waste or heathland because all such land in Devon had already been enclosed: "...Devon has long been recognised as one of the earliest counties to be enclosed and that, with rare exceptions, the arable land was probably wholly enclosed by Elizabethan times". [The Reclamation of the Waste in Devon, 1550-1800  W. G. Hoskins
The Economic History Review, Vol. 13, No. 1/2 (1943), pp. 80-92] The presumption then is that the 1819 (59 Geo 3) Rawridge and Upottery (Devon) Inclosure Act affected only the moorland and heath-land around Upottery.
There is the possibility that Jacob Parkhouse or his forebears, like many others, suffered as a result of the Enclosures, losing a measure of independence:
"Each enclosure required an Act of Parliament and Commissioners were appointed to investigate the various claims, each man receiving in a single block roughly the same area as the total area of his strips in the open-fields. The cottager, having survived the scrutiny of the Commissioners, discovered that he not only had to pay his share of the legal costs of the enclosure procedure but also had to put up a fence around his land to confirm its enclosure. The cost of this was beyond many cottagers and this, coupled with the fact that they either lacked the means to work their new land economically or that the land allocated to them was unsuitable for the crops they needed and grew in the open fields, resulted in many selling their holding to the wealthier holders. Also many of the squatters, who had in previous years cultivated some land on the outskirts of the village, were evicted, having no kind of legal right. Thousands were subsequently reduced to the status of land­less labourers, many migrating to the towns where they were absorbed into the growing industries. Those who did stay in the country found that the new techniques increased the wealth of the rich farmer but progressively made the labourer worse off. He could no longer supplement his wages with garden produce from his holding in the open fields, or graze his animals on the common lands, or collect fuel from the wastes." [The English Country Cottage - R.J. Brown page 35 ISBN0099336200]