WELLCOMBE, a parish in the hundred of HARTLAND,
county of DEVON, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from
Hartland, containing 247 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple,
and diocese of Exeter, endowed with £1600 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Perpetual Curate
of Hartland. The church is dedicated to St. Nectan.