THOMAS-the-APOSTLE (ST.), a parish in the
hundred of WONFORD, county of DEVON,  a mile (S.
by W.) from Exeter, containing, with the chapelry of
Oldridge, 3245 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated in the
king's books at £11.2. 8.,and in the patronage of James
Buller, Esq. The parish is bounded on the east by the
river Exe, from which the Exeter canal passes to the
southward. Twenty-four children are educated for
an annuity of £10, bequeathed by William Gould, and
four for £1. 10. a year, the gift of Robert Pate. A
small priory of Black canons, a cell to that of Plympton,
founded in the time of Henry III., in honour of the
Blessed Virgin, stood partly in this parish, and partly
in that of Alphington.