MOORWINSTOW, a parish in the hundred of STRATTON, county of CORNWALL, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from Stratton, containing 1091 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at & 13. 10. 10., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Exeter. The church, dedicated to St. Morvenna, is principally Norman, with an enriched south porch and a large font of the same character; it has some portions in the later English style. The parish, situated at the most northern extremity of Cornwall, extends across that portion of the county, having on the west the Bristol channel, and on the east the river Tamar, which here takes its rise.