COMBINTINHEAD, a parish forming, with Stokeintinhead,
Shaldon Green, and Haccombe, a detached
portion of the hundred of WONFORD, locally in that of
Haytor, county of DEVON, 3 miles (E.) from Newton-
Bushell, containing 403 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated
in the king's books at £32. 2. 8., and in the patronage
of Sir B. Wrey, Bart. The church contains an ancient
wooden screen. The church-house, now occupied by
the poor, is of ancient foundation. Here is a school,
founded by Margaret Burgoyne, in 1783, with an endowment
of £ 100 stock, for teaching ten children. The
navigable river Teign bounds this parish on. the north.