Claim: Accounts of ball lightning includes sightings during the Great Thunderstorm of Widecombe-in-the-Moor, a civil parish in Devon, England.
Evidence: One early account reports the Great Thunderstorm at a church in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon, in England, on 21 October 1638. Widecombe in the Moor (/ˌwɪdɪkəm ... ˈmʊər/) is a village and large civil parish on Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England.