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"THORNCOMBE, a village and a parish, nearly 6 miles N.E. of Axminster, was formerly a detached part of Devon, but was given to Dorsetshire by act of parliament in 1842 in exchange for Stockland and Dalwood. . . It contains 1425 inhabitants, and 5550 acres of land. It has a fair on Easter Tuesday, but its market was discontinued about 1770, when the market house was pulled down. John Bragge, Esq., is lord of the manor of Thorncombe, and owner of Sadborough, but here are several smaller landowners, and Ford Abbey is the seat of -- Mills, Esq. This mansion occupies the site of a Cistercian Abbey, which was founded by Richard de Sap, Baron of Okehampton, at Brightley, in 1133, and removed here a few years afterwards. The parish CHURCH (St Mary,) is an ancient structure, and the living is a vicarage, valued in K.B. at £15. 18s. 9d. and in 1831 at £516. J. Bragge, Esq., is patron, and the Rev. John Bragge is the incumbent. Having formerly been a part of Devon, we have deemed it necessary to give this brief notice of Thorncombe, which is now in Whitchurch Canicorum Hundred, Dorsetshire, and in the diocese of Salisbury." [From White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Devon (1850)] A parish in Axminster Hundred, and the Archdeaconry and Diocese of Exeter.
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Michael Day provides pictures and bibliography for Thorncombe church dedicated to St. Mary as a part of UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath.
Udal, J.S. Notes on the History of Ford Abbey, and of the Families Who Have Possessed it Since the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Proc. Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 9 (1988) pp.136-146.
Phillimore, W. P. W. (William Phillimore Watts). "Marriages at Thornecombe, 1522-1812", In Dorset parish registers, vol. 2. London: Phillimore & Co. (1907) (Phillimore's parish register series, vol. 67). [Lookups]
Thorncombe Marriages, 1813-1837. [Devon]: Devon Family History Society.
Churchwardens' Presentment for the Parish of Thorncombe 1665, Devon Family Historian, vol. 99, (2001) pp.24. [Facsimile of original, identifying "outed ministers and absenters"]
Thorncombe from "The Dorset Page"
Farley, Ron. Thorncombe: Life Memories and the History of the Parish. (1994) [ISBN 0952498103] [DFHS LOC 376] [Lookups]
Farley, Ron. Thorncombe Parish Industries Past and Present. Obelisk Publications (1996) 68p. [DFHS 942.38/THO] [ISBN 0952498103] [Lookups]