Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COWICK

COWICK, a place in St. Thomas-the-Apostle's parish, near Exeter, in Devon. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Bee abbey, was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by William Fitz-Baldwin.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Devon AncC

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