Crediton is a town in Devon, England about 12 km north west of Exeter. It is served by Crediton railway station.

The town is situated in the narrow vale of the River Creedy near its junction with the River Exe, between two steep hills, and is divided into two parts, the east or old town and the west or new town. The church of Holy Cross, formerly collegiate, is a noble Perpendicular building with Early English and other early portions, and a fine central tower. The grammar school, founded by Edward VI and refounded by Elizabeth I, has exhibitions to Oxford and Cambridge universities. (That cannot be true, for exhibitions to Cambridge were abolished many years ago, as were many of those for Oxford.) Shoe-making, tanning, agricultural trade, tin-plating, and the manufacture of confectionery and cider have superseded the former large woollen and serge industries. In 1897 Crediton was made the seat of a suffragan bishopric in the diocese of Exeter.

The first indication of settlement at Crediton (Credington, Cryditon, Kirton) is the tradition that Winfrith or Boniface was born there in 680. Perhaps in his memory (for the great extent of the parish shows that it was thinly populated) it became in 909 the seat of the first bishopric in Devon. It was probably only a village in 1049, when Leofric, bishop of Crediton, requested Pope Leo IX to transfer the see to Exeter, as Crediton was an open town and much exposed to the incursions of pirates.

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