COOMBE-BISSETT, a parish in the hundred of
CAWDEN-and-CADWORTH, county of WILTS, 3-§ miles
(S. W.) from Salisbury, containing 331 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual
curacy of West Harnham annexed, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books
at £7, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Prebendary of Coombe and Harnham
in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury. The church is
dedicated to St. Michael. This place received its distinguishing
name from the family that formerly possessed
it; the other arose from its situation in one of
the narrow bourns, or combes, with which Salisbury
plain is so frequently intersected.