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LITHWELL, or LUIDWELL, a hamlet, formerly a chapelry, in Dawlish parish, Devon; 3 miles NW of Teignmouth. The ruins of the chapel still exist; and a well, covered with a slab of granite, is among them. A legend says that a priest here, in the 16th century, waylaid and murdered travellers on a neighbouring heath, hoarded the money which he found on them beneath the altar of the chapel, and threw their bodies into the well.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a hamlet, formerly a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Dawlish Parish Devon Ancient County |
| Place names: | LITHWELL | LITHWELL OR LUIDWELL | LUIDWELL |
| Place: | Lidwell |
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