Description
Combinteignhead or Combe-in-Teignhead, a village and a pariah in Devonshire. The village stands in the Teign valley, about half a mile from the Teign river, 3 miles E of Newton Abbott station on the G.W.R., and 5 N of Torquay. The parish includes also the hamlets of Combe Cellars, Netherton, and Rocombe. Post town, Teignmouth; telegraph office, Shaldon. Population, 520. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter ; value, £350. The church is old, consists of nave, chancel, north and south aisles, with a square tower, has a carved oak screen, and was restored in 1887-88. In 1885 this parish was annexed to the adjoining one of Haccombe for civil purposes, and is now known as Haccombe-with-Combe.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
