BICKLEIGH, a parish in the hundred of HAYRIDGE,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (S. by W.) from
Tiverton, containing 273 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £18. 4. 9., and in the patronage
of Sir H. Carew, Bart. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. The navigable river Exe here receives
a small stream called the Dart,,and is crossed
by a bridge near the point of junction. Bamfylde
Moore Carew, styled King of the Beggars, was born
here, in 1693, of a respectable'family, his father being
rector of the parish; and hither he returned, at the
close of his extraordinary wanderings, where he died
in 1758.