DUNKESWELL, a parish in the hundred of HEMYOCK,
county of DEVON, 5 miles (N. by W.) from Honiton,
containing 441 inhabitants. The living is a donative,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £4 00 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of Miss Graves. The
church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. Dunkeswell, which
anciently belonged to a Jew named Amadio, was purchased
by William Briwere, who founded, in 1201, an
abbey for White monks, to the honour of the Virgin
Mary; the annual revenue of which, at the dissolution,
was estimated at £298. 11.10.