Description
Batcombe, a parish in Somersetshire, 3 miles E of Evercreech on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 3 N of Bruton on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Bath; telegraph office, Evercreech. Acreage, 3238; population, 588. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Upton-Noble, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £703. The church was restored in 1844, and a new tenor bell was hung in 1887. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
