Cruwys Morchard 
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CRUWYS-MORCHARD is a hilly but fertile parish, in Tiverton
union, county court district, and petty sessional division,
Witheridge hundred, Exeter archdeaconry, and Tiverton East rural
deanery. It had 608 inhabitants in 1881, and comprised 5766 acres
of land, including the hamlets of Cotton, Yedbury, and
Way. The manor has been held by the Cruwys family since the
reign of King John, if not from a much earlier period. George James
Cruwys, Esq., J.P. is lord of the manor, and resides at his ancient
family seat Cruwys-Morchard Court, which was enlarged and
modernised about 40 years ago, and has a tasteful and well-wooded
park, mostly planted in 1834-5. The Rev. A. H. Cruwys and Messrs.
Lake, Strong, Ayre, and Waller have estates in the parish. A new
road was cut through the parish, and about 300 acres of common
enclosed about 50 years ago.
The CHURCH (Holy Cross),
an ancient structure of Elizabethan date, consists of chancel,
nave, south aisle and porch, and square tower, containing six
bells. The church was repaired, seated with oak benches, and had
six ornamental windows inserted during the incumbency of the late
Rev. G. S. Cruwys, by whom the cost was borne. A finely-carved
screen divides the nave and chancel. The register dates from 1572.
The living, a rectory, valued in K.B. at £21 11s 8d., and now
at £600, is in the gift of G. J. Cruwys, Esq., and incumbency
of the Rev. Arthur Henry Cruwys, M.A. The rectory house was built
at an expense of £3000 in 1862, by the late Rev. G. S.
Cruwys, the then rector. The glebe is 130 acres, and the tithes
were commuted in 1839 for £506 a year.
The INDEPENDENTS have a
chapel here. The NATIONAL SCHOOL, built by George James Cruwys,
Esq., in 1875, at the cost of £350, is attended by about 40
children. The poor have the following yearly sums, viz., £2
as the interest of £40 lent to the overseers and
churchwardens; £1 15s 4d. left by Humphrey Brook, in 1670,
out of Beere farm; and £1 15s 9d. left by Robert Gay, in
1725, out of Lower Yedbury farm. Of the latter, £1 is paid
for schooling four poor boys. A poor woman of this parish has 40s.
a year from Mrs. Pyncombe's charity. (See Poughill.)
POST OFFICE at Mr. Jabez
Wood's. Letters are received at 9 a.m. and despatched at 4.15 p.m.,
via Tiverton, which is the nearest Money Order Office.
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Back John Henry, farmer,
Northcott
Backwell Thomas, farmer, Stubborn Balman Edwd. dairyman, Lower Claw Beedell Henry, farmer, Ford Beedell Henry, jun. farmer, Hill Bending Mark, farmer, Higher Park Bishop Geo. Gillman, Nat. schlmastr Bowden Albert, farmer, Chapple Bowden William, farmer, Higher Claw Britton Samuel, farmer, Wood place Bryant John Dairyman, Pennymoor Barnett William, farmer, Stickridge Burridge Frederick, dairyman, Lower Langside Cornwall Henry, farmer, Furze Cruwys Rev. Arthur Henry, M.A. rector, The Rectory Cruwys George James, Esq. J.P. Cruwys-Morchard court Darch Richard, farmer, Lugsland Davey John, wheelwright Drake Frederick, dairyman, South Linhays Frankpitt Richard, farmer, Forke Fulford Thomas, farmer, Week Gibbons Frederick, H. farmer, West Ruckham Greenslade George, victualler and blacksmith, Mount Pleasant Inn Guscott John, carpenter Guscott Samuel, carrier, Holmes Heyluer Robert, dairyman, Kellys Hill John, farmer, Moor Howard John, farmer, Depford Hunt Geo. farmer & mason, Coombe Hunt Geo. farmer, Lower Vulscombe Hunt John, farmer, Higher Vulscombe Kerslake Mrs Mary, farmer, Thongsleigh Kingdom Abraham, tailor Lake John, farmer, Edgeworthy Lake Mrs Marie, farmer, Lithyland Lake Richard, farmer, Thorne |
Maire Mrs Sarah, farmer, Beer
Manley Thos. frmer. Lower Yeadbury Mitchell Richard, wheelwright, Mount Pleasant Mitchem Joseph, dairyman, Higher Yeadbury Nichols John, carpenter, Way village Nichols William, farmer & carpenter, Wart Ball Parish Thos. frmer. Merryfield Hayes Parkhouse Thomas, farmer and road contractor, Sellicks Phillips George, mason, Way village Pickering Miss Annie, Pennymoor Pike George, farmer, Mount Pleasant Ponsford George, farmer, Down Pope Mr Richard, Pennymoor Pope Richard, victualler and blacksmith, Cruwys Arms Radford Jas. farmer, South East way Radford William, farmer, Cotton Rowe William, dairyman, Knapp Sage Philip, builder, Mudfords Sharland James, dairyman, Pages Sharland Thos. dairyman, Yeadbury Southcott Mrs. Ann, farmer, North Looseland Stevenson William Thomas, shoemaker, Pennymoor Stone George, dairyman, Crandle Strong James, farmer, West Lane Strong Jas. W. farmer, Little Heath Sully William, dairyman, Wringsland Thorne Mr William, Pennymoor Trude Edward, farmer, Westway Voysey George, miller and parish clerk, Morchard mill Waller George, farmer, Hookway Waller Thomas C. farmer, Coombland Webber John, farmer, Wringsland Westron Richard, farmer, Eveleighs Whitton James, farmer, Middleway Wood Jabez, postmaster and shoemaker, Pennymoor |
Last updated - Brian Randell, 12 Jun 2006
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