Description
Moreleigh or Morley, a village and a parish in Devonshire. The village stands 2 1/2 miles E of the river Avon, and 5 1/2 SSW of Totnes station on the G.W.R.; was once a market-town ; and gives the title of Earl to the family of Parker. Post town, Totnes. Acreage of the civil parish, 1186 ; population, 102; of the ecclesiastical, 113. Stanborough Fort, an ancient strength which gave name to the hundred of Stanborough, stood here. The parish is a resort of sportsmen. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £145 with residence. The church is Early English, has a partially developed fresco on S wall, is of the time of Edward I., and was restored in 1877.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
