Description
Luccombe or Luckham, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands 4 miles SW of Minehead station on the G.W.R. The parish contains also the hamlets of West Luccombe, Doverhays, and Horner. Post town, Taunton; money order and telegraph office, Porlock. Acreage, 3870 ; population of the civil parish, 333; of the ecclesiastical, 349. It has a parish council of five members. The manor belongs to the Acland family. Iron ore was formerlyworked. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; tithe commuted, £364 with residence. The church is Early English, with a good deal of Later Perpendicular work, and consists of nave, aisle, and chancel, with porch and tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
