EXFORD, a parish in the hundred of CARHAMPTON, county of SOMERSET, 8 miles (N. W. by N.) from Dulverton, containing 373 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £18. 2. 8., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Peter House, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. Exford takes its name from its situation at one of the fords on the river Exe, over which is a stone bridge of three arches. The environs, for many miles, were at one time a forest, called Exmoor. Many curious plants and flowers grow here, and several barrows are scattered over the tract, together with circular intrenchments thrown up for religious rites or feats of exercise. A mile and a half westward from the church are vestiges of some very ancient iron-works, in which tradition says the entire wood of the forest has been consumed.