Cruwys Morchard

from

A Topographical Dictionary of England

by

 Samuel Lewis (1831)

Transcript copyright Mel Lockie (Sep 2016)

CRUWYS-MORCHARD, a parish in the hundredof WITHERIDGE, county of DEVON, 5¼ miles (W.) fromTiverton, containing 652 inhabitants. The living is arectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and dioceseof Exeter, rated in the king's books at £21. 11. 8., andin the patronage of Beauvis Wood, Esq. and another.The church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, was struck bylightning in 1689, which rent the steeple and meltedthe bells.