PETROCKSTOW, a parish in the hundred of SHEBBEAR,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from Hatherleigh,
containing 571 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £ 17. 0. 2., and
in the patronage of Lord Clinton.