COLEBROKE, a parish in the hundred of CREDITON,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (w.) from Crediton,
containing 875 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £20.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There are ruins
of chapels at Coplestone, Hooke, Horwell, Land's End,
and Wolmstone, in this parish; and near the latter is a
well, dedicated to the Virgin Mary.