Halwell and Moreleigh is a civil parish in the South Hams district, in the county of Devon, England.

During the Saxon era Halwell was one of the four burhs, or fortified settlements, established in Devon by King Alfred the Great (d.899), King of Wessex from 871 to 899, to defend against invasion by Vikings.

[1] The manor of Moreleigh is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Morlei, the 16th of the 22 Devonshire holdings of Alfred the Breton,[2] one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.

[citation needed] The Church of All Saints in Moreleigh had been built by 1239.

[3] Halwell and Moreleigh is surrounded, starting north and following the clock, by the parishes of Harberton, Ashprington, Cornworthy, Blackawton, East Allington, Woodleigh and Diptford.