BRANSCOMBE, a parish in the hundred of COLYTON, county of DEVON, 4 miles (E.) from Sidmouth, containing 773 inhabitants. . The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, rated in the king's books at 418. 15. 10. The church is dedicated to St. Winifred. Here are extensive quarries of freestone.