EGGESFORD, a parish in the hundred of NORTH-TAWTON-with-WINKLEY,
county of DEVON, 2 miles
(S.) from Chulmleigh, containing 144 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory, jn the archdeaconry of
Barnstaple, and diocese of Essex, rated in the kings
books at £7. 18. 9., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Hon. Newton Fellowes. Here was formerly an
hospital founded by Ibote Reigny.