Icomb
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Icomb cottages
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]
References
- ↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ↑ Foster, Graham E. (2005). The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Icomb (church guide).
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