PANCRASSWEEK, a parish in the hundred of
BLACK-TORRINGTON, county of DEVON, 4 miles (W. N.
W.) from Hols worthy, containing 529 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, with the vicarage of Bradworthy,
in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of
Exeter, endowed with £400 royal bounty. The church
is dedicated to St. Pancras. The river Taniar, and the
Bude and Launceston canal, pass through the parish. At
Lana is the site of an. ancient chapel.