Description
Chalcombe or Chacombe, a village and a parish in Northamptonshire, adjacent to the river Cherwell, 3£ miles NE of Banbury. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office called Chacombe, under Banbury. Acreage, 1725; population, 360. A priory was founded in the time of Henry II. by Hugh de Chacombe, and given at the dissolution to the Foxes. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Peterborough ; net yearly value, £260 with residence. The church is chiefly Decorated English, has a porch and a tower, and contains a fine Norman font and a brass of 1500. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
