CRUWYS-MORCHARD, a parish in the hundred
of WITHERIDGE, county of DEVON, 5 miles (W.) from
Tiverton, containing 652 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and diocese
of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £21. 11. 8., and
in the patronage of Beauvis Wood, Esq. and another.
The church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, was struck by
lightning in 1689, which rent the steeple and melted
the bells.