Haccombe with Coombe
Haccombe with Coombe is located within Teignbridge local authority area. Historically it formed part of Wonford Hundred. It falls within Moretonhampstead 1 Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. In 1641/2 7 adult males signed the Protestation returns.
A parish history file is held in Newton Abbot Library. You can look for other material on the community by using the place search on the main local studies database. Further historical information is also available on the Genuki website.
Maps: The image below is of the Haccombe with Coombe area on Donn's one inch to the mile survey of 1765
On the County Series Ordnance Survey mapping the area is to be found on 1:2,500 sheet 110/13 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 110SW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX898702. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX87SE, 1:25,000 mapping: sheet Explorer 031, Landranger (1:50,000) mapping: sheet 202. Geological sheet 339 also covers the area.
Extract from Devon by W.G.Hoskins (1954), included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
HACCOMBE WITH COMBE is a union of two ancient ecclesiastical parishes. Combeinteignhead (to give it its full name) is a village lying where a long valley (combe) opens out on to the estuary of the Teign. Coombe Cellars is one of those attractive old "riverside inns (there are several in Devon) of which many townspeople have happy memories, of carefree summer evenings long ago. It was also a noted smuggling centre in the early 19th century Combe church (dedication unknown) is a 14th to 15th century church with transepts, too vigorously restored by Medley Fulford in 1887-8. There is a fine rood-screen, a notable 12th century font, and some remarkable carved bench-ends (16th century) in the N. transept. In this transept also are the tombs and memorials of the Hockmore family of Buckland Barton. The chancel is small and dark, and looks rebuilt. Near the church are the almshouses, in red sandstone, given by William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath, in 1620.
