COMBE (ENGLISH), a parish in the hundred of
WELLOW, county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (S.W.) from
Bath, containing 311 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese
of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at
£9. 3. ll., endowed with £400 private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage'of the
Rev. D. Hughes. The church is a very handsome structure.
Here was formerly a castle belonging to the
family of Gurnay, but little more than the fosse which
encompassed it is distinguishable. The ancient road
Wansdyke crosses this parish, passing by an eminence
called Roundbarrow, or Barrow Hill, which has been
erroneously considered.of artificial construction; at its
base a coin of Antoninus Pius was found in 1786.