DUNCHIDEOCK, a parish in the hundred of EXMINSTER,
county of DEVON, 4 miles (S.W. byW.) from
Exeter, containing 200 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated
in the king's books at £ 14. 17. 1. Sir L. V. Palk, Bart,
was patron in 1793. The church, dedicated to the Holy
Trinity, contains a handsome monument to the memory
of General L. Lawrence, Commander-in-chief in India
about the middle of the last century. Here is a house
for the poor to live in, capable of receiving eighty persons.