COMBS, a parish in the hundred of STOW, county of
SUFFOLK, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Stow-Market, containing
736 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated
in the king's books at £25.17- 85., and in the patronage
of the Earl of Ashburnham. The church, dedicated
to St. Mary, is in the early style of English architecture.
The river Orwell flows along the north-eastern boundary
of the parish, and is navigable from Ipswich to Stow^
Market. Here is a considerable tannery.