Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COMBE-HAY, or Combhay

COMBE-HAY, or Combhay, a parish in Bath district, Somerset; on the Fosse way and the Radford canal, 3½ miles SSW of Bath. Post town, Wellow, under Bath. Acres, 1, 091. Real property, 1, 547. Pop., 245. Houses, 44. The property is divided among a few. Combe-Hay Park is the seat of the Hon. H. H. Tracey. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £307.* Patron, the Hon. H. H. Tracey. The church is good; and the churchyard contains the grave of the poet Carrington, author of "Dartmoor. " Charities, £7.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Combe Hay CP/AP       Bath RegD/PLU       Somerset AncC
Place names: COMBE HAY     |     COMBE HAY OR COMBHAY     |     COMBHAY
Place: Combe Hay

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