KERSWELL (ABBOTS), a parish in the hundred
of HAYTOR, county of DEVON, 1 mile (S.) from Newton-
Bushel, containing 437 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Totness, and diocese of
Exeter, rated in the king's books at £11. 1. 3., and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. A Cluniac priory was founded here subordinate
to the priory of Montacute in Somersetshire.