YARNSCOMBE, a parish in the hundred of HARTLAND,
county of DEVON, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from
Great Torrington, containing 463 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Barnstaple, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's
books at £7- 11. 11., and in the patronage of the
Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.