LEW (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of BLACK
TORRINGTON, county of DEVON, 4 miles (S.W. by S.)
from Hatherleigh, containing 868 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconryl of Totness, and
diocese of Exeter,"rated in the king's books at £27. 8. 9.,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Thomas a Becket. At Redcliffe, within
this parish, are the remains of an ancient chapel, and
near it a quarry of excellent freestone.