Bickleigh, a parish in Devonshire, on the river Exe, with a station on the Exe branch of the G.W.R., called Cadeleigh and Bickleigh. It has a post office under Tiverton; money order and telegraph office, Silverton. Acreage, 1827 ; population, 259. The manor belonged anciently to the Bickleighs, and passed to the Courteneys, and then to the Carews. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £373 with residence. The church is a neat structure of nave, south aisle, chancel, and western tower, and contains some handsome monuments of the Carews. Bamfylde Moore Carew, born in 1690, the son of a rector of the parish, and popularly known as " King of the Beggars," was a native.
