Description
Combe St Nicholas, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village is near Chard, 3 miles NW by N of Chard station on the G.W. and L. & S.W.R., and has a post and money order office under Chard; telegraph office, Chard. It has a fair on the Wednesday after 10 Dec. The parish is divided into the tithings of Betham, Clayhanger, Ham, and Wade-ford, and includes the hamlets of Sticklepath and Weston. Acreage, 4343; population, 1069. There was anciently a nunnery at Weston. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £330 with residence Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is Later English, cruciform, and good, and has an embattled tower dating back to 1239. There is a Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
