English Combe, Somerset

Description
Englishcome or Inglescombe (called Ink Conibe in Domesday Book), a parish in Somerset, on the Wans Dyke, adjacent to the G.W.R., near Twerton station, 2 1/4 miles SW of Bath. Post town, Bath; money order office, Holloway; telegraph office, Twerton. Acreage, 1838 ; population of the civil parish, 398; of the ecclesiastical, 426. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells ; gross value, £165 with residence. Englishcome is part of the Duchy of Cornwall. There are remains of an old Norman castle in the village, only a green mound and the moat all round are left of it. The church is Norman and has some very interesting remains in it, viz., a Bambino in a very perfect condition, and leper squint and carved Norman work sedilia in the tower, besides 2 old piscinas. There is an old farmhouse and large tithe barn attached, near the church, which is said to have been a monastery belonging to Bath Abbey, and the barn was the monastery church. There are excellent remains of the high altar at the east end of the barn.