COMBE (MONCTON), a parish in the hundred of BATH-FORUM, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (S.E. by S.) from Bath, containing 855 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of South Stoke, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Here is a large paper-manufactory. On Combe down are extensive quarries, at which stone was obtained for erecting many of the best houses in Bath; in the cavities of it clusters of hexagonal brown chrystals are found/ and in the fissures of the rocks are some fine and curiously frosted stalactites.