COWICK, a chapelry in the parish of ST-THOMAS-the-APOSTLE-EXETER, hundred of WONFORD, county of DEVON, 1 mile (S. W. by S.) from Exeter. The population is returned with the parish. The chapel is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket. A Benedictine monastery, a cell to the abbey of Bee in Normandy, was established here by William, son of Balwine, in the time of Henry II., but there are not any remains of it.