CHARLCOMBE, a parish in the hundred of HAMPTON and CLAVERTON, locally in that of Bath-Forum, county of SOMERSET, 1 mile (N.) from Bath, containing 124 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £5.15. 10., and annexed to the mastership of the free grammar school at Bath, in the patronage of the Mayor and Corporation of Bath, as trustees. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a small ancient edifice, which tradition relates was formerly the mother church to Bath, and received an annual acknowledgment of a pound of pepper from the abbey there. At Thelesford, iii this parish, a small priory of the order of the Holy Trinity, for the redemption of captives, was founded, in the reign of John, by Sir William Lucy, Knt.