LAPFORD, a parish in the hundred of NORTH-TAWTON-with-WINKLEY, county of DEVON, 5 miles (S. E.) from Chulmleigh, containing 674 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £15. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Rev. W. Radford. The church is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket.