Cruwys Morchard
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Cruwys Morchard is a civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon, England. It is located about four to five miles west of Tiverton along the road to Witheridge. The parish covers about 5,765 acres of land. It comprises a number of scattered houses and farms, and three small hamlets, Pennymoor, Way Village and Nomansland. The church and the manor house are in the centre of the parish. The population at the time of the 2000 census was 461. The parish takes its name from the Cruwys family who have been Lords of the Manor here since the reign of King John.
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- Hugh Peters (1598-1660), the preacher and regicide, spent much of his childhood at Cruwys Morchard House with his uncle and aunt Lewis Cruwys and Sarah Cruwys née Treffry.
- Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894-1968), Devon historian.
- Cruwys Morchard is the alias of Clytie Potts, a fictional character in Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles.
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