BOW, or NYMETT-TRACEY, a parish (formerly a
market-town) in the hundred of NORTH-TAWTON-with-WINKLEY,
county of DEVON, 7 miles (W. by N.) from
Crediton, containing 872 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £19. 8. 9., and
in the patronage of J. Marshall,Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. Bartholomew. A market and a fair were
granted to Henry Tracey, lord of the manor, in 1258;
the former has been discontinued, but fairs for cattle are
held on the third Thursday in March, Ascension-day,
and November 22nd. John Gould, in 1682, endowed
a school with £8. 10. per annum, and a house for the
use of the master, who instructs ten children gratuitously.