CHALLACOMBE, a parish in the hundred of
SHERWILL, county of DEVON, 10 miles (N. E. by E.}
from Barnstaple, containing 240 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple, and
diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at £11. 9- 2.,
and in the patronage of Earl Fortescue. The church is
dedicated to the Holy Trinity.