Haccombe, Devon

Description
Haccombe, a parish in Devonshire, near the river Teign, and 3 miles E by S of Newton Abbot station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Newton Abbot. Acreage, 547; population, 545. The manor belonged anciently to the Haccombs; passed to the Archdeacons and the Courtenays, and has belonged since the 13th century to the Carews. Haccombe House, the seat of the Carews family, is a modern edifice on the site of a very ancient hall. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Exeter. The church is ancient, partly Decorated English; was formerly collegiate, for an archpriest and five priests; contains interesting monuments of the Haccombs and the Carews, and has on its door two horse-shoes, commemorative of a wild swimming feat of a Carew.