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Lithwell or Ludwell, Devon

Historical Description

Lithwell or Ludwell, a hamlet in Devonshire, 3 miles NW of Teignmouth station on the G.W.R. 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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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