RUSCOMB, a parish in the hundred of SONNING,
county of BERKS, 5 miles (E. N. E.) from Reading,
containing 208 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of
Salisbury, and in the patronage of the Prebendary of
Combe and Harnham in the Cathedral Church of
Salisbury. The church is dedicated to St. James, In
the chancel lie buried the remains of Lord Chief Justice
Eyre, who occasionally resided here. There is a place
of worship for Independents.