Icomb

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Icomb is a village in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds, near to Stow on the Wold. The population taken at the 2011 census was 202.^[2]

Icomb
Icomb Location within Gloucestershire
Population	202 (2011 Census)
District	Cotswold
Shire county	Gloucestershire
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Cheltenham
Postcode district	GL54
Police	Gloucestershire
Fire	Gloucestershire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North Cotswolds[1]
List of places UK England Gloucestershire 51°54′N 1°42′W

The village appears as Iacumbe in the Domesday Book.

Parish Church

The Church of St Mary is the parish church which has a Norman north doorway and an Early English south porch and doorway dating from around 1249. It is a grade I listed building.^[3]

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.^[4]

51°54′N 1°42′W

References

1. "Location of North Cotswolds". parliament.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
2. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 24 March 2015.
3. "Church of St Mary". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
4. Foster, Graham E. (2005). The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Icomb (church guide).

External links

Media related to Icomb at Wikimedia Commons