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A Topographical Dictionary of England
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Samuel Lewis (1831)
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SHERWILL, a parish in the hundred of SHERWILL, county of DEVON, 4 miles (N. E.) from Barnstaple, containing 645 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £30. 3. 11½., and in the patronage of Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.