The River Creedy is a small river in

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. It gives its name to the local town or ''ton'' of

Crediton Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England. It stands on the A377 Exeter to Barnstaple road at the junction with the A3072 road to Tiverton, about north west of Exeter and around from the M5 motorway ...

, which is on its west bank, and to several local historic estates, namely ''Creedy Hilion'', ''Creedy Peitevin'' (later called ''Creedy Wiger'') and Creedy Park, in the parish of Sandford, also to the Benefice of North Creedy. Just below the town, the river merges with the River Yeo and it ends where it meets the

River Exe The River Exe ( ) in England rises at Exe Head, near the village of Simonsbath, on Exmoor in Somerset, from the Bristol Channel coast, but flows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in Devon. It flows for 60 mile ...

at Cowley Bridge. The river is overlooked by

Fordy Wood Copse Fordy Wood Copse is a woodland in Devon, England, near Sandford. It covers a total area of and overlooks the River Creedy. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation charity in the ...

, a woodland owned and managed by the

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. The name is believed to be of

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origin, but views of its precise origin differ. According to one source it derives from a root meaning ''winding''. Another view holds that it means ''shrinking'', as compared with the more powerful Yeo.Breeze, A. (2007): Review of ''The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names''
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