Icomb
Appearance
Icomb | |
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Location within Gloucestershire | |
Population | 202 (2011 Census) |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Cheltenham |
Postcode district | GL54 |
Police | Gloucestershire |
Fire | Gloucestershire |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Icomb is a village in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, near to Stow on the Wold. The population taken at the 2011 census was 202.[1]
The village appears as Iacumbe in the Domesday Book.
Parish Church
The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has a Norman north doorway and an Early English south porch and doorway dating from around 1249.
Icomb Place
The Grade 1 Listed building Icomb Place on edge of the village was significantly altered by Sir John Blaket in 1421, a knight who fought with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt and died in 1431, whose tomb is in the church.[2]
51°54′N 1°42′W / 51.900°N 1.700°W
References
- ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ Foster, Graham E. (2005). The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Icomb (church guide).
External links
Media related to Icomb at Wikimedia Commons