Description
Yarcombe, a parish, with a village, in Devonshire, 5 miles W by S of Chard station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Chard. Acreage, 5238; population of the civil parish, 647; of the ecclesiastical, 625. The manor was given by William the Conqueror to St Michael Abbey in Normandy, passed to the priory of Otterton, and belongs now to the Drake family. Sheafhayne House is the chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; gross value, £480 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style, with an embattled tower. There are two Baptist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
