PYWORTHY, a parish in the hundred of BLACK TORRINGTON, county of DEVON, 2 miles (W.S.W.) from Holsworthy, containing 630 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £27 8. 4. The Rev. T. H. Kingdon was patron in 1826. The church is dedicated to St. Swithin. The Bude and Launceston canal passes through the parish.