MARWOOD, a village and a parish in Barnstaple district, Devon. The village stands 3¼ miles NNW of Barnstaple r. station; was known, at Domesday, as Merewood; and has a post office under Barnstalple. The parish contains also the hamlets of Middle Marwood, Blakewell, Farleigh, Guineaford, Kings-Heanton, Mill town, Mudford, and Prixford. Acres, 5,396. Real property, £5,383. Pop., 1,009. Houses, 209. The property is snbdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £635.* Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church stands in a tolerably central position; has a good chancel of the 13th century, and a fine tower of later date; and contains a beautiful font, some carved open seats, and a handsome screen of the time of Henry VIII. There are chapels for Independents and Methodists, an endowed school with £14 a year, and charities £18.

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