Description
Combe, Long, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire, on the river Evenlode, 2 1/4 miles NW of Handborough station on the G.W.R., and 2^ WSW of Woodstock, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Woodstock. Acreage, 1417 ; population, 527. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £255. Patron, the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St Lawrence, was built in 1395, and is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style. The chancel was restored in 1887, There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
