YARCOMBE, a parish in the hundred of AXMINSTER,
county of DEVON, 5 miles (W.) from Chard,
containing 793 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £ 28, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £ 200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to
St. John the Baptist. There is a place of worship for
Baptists. A small school is partly supported by annual
subscriptions of about £ 5.