ODCOMBE, a parish in the hundred of HOUNDSBOROUGH-BERWICK-and-COKER,
county of SOMERSET,
3 miles (W. by S.) from Yeovil, containing 540 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
king's books at £ 15. 9. 9-, and in the patronage of
the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The
church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. Humphrey
Hody, an eminent divine, was born here in 1659;
he died in 1706.