Watcombe
Watcombe is located within Torbay local authority area. Historically it formed part of Haytor Hundred. Civil parish of Saint Mary Church.
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 and from Torquay Local Studies Library.
Maps: The image below is of the Watcombe 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 116/6 Six inch (1:10560) sheet 116NW
The National Grid reference for the centre of the area is SX923675. On the post 1945 National Grid Ordnance Survey mapping the sheets are: 1:10,000 (six inch to a mile: sheet SX96NW, 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), to be included by kind permission of the copyright holder:
