CUTCOMBE, a parish in the hundred of CARHAMPTON, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Dunster,containing 664 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Luxborough annexed, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £14. 0.7s., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. John. A school was founded and endowed, in 1720, by Richard Elsworth, in which from fifty to sixty children are instructed, Dunkery, the highest mountain in the western counties of England, is in this parish, on^ the summit of which are the ruins of several large hearths belonging to the beacons formerly erected on this elevated spot, to alarm the country in times of civil discord or foreign invasion.