Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YARCOMBE

YARCOMBE, a parish, with a village, in the district of Chard, and county of Devon; 5 miles W by S of Chard r. station. It has a post-office under Chard. Acres, 4,689. Real property, £5,540. Pop., 815. Houses, 154. The manor was given by William the Conqueror, to St. Michael abbey, in Norm and y; passed to the priory of Otterton; and belongs now to Sir T. T. Drake, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter. Value, £486* Patron, the Crown. The church is good; and there are a Baptist chapel, a national school, and charities £31.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yarcombe CP/AP       Devon AncC
Place: Yarcombe

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