Place:Ashcombe, Devon, England

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Name
Ashcombe
Alternate names
Aissecoma     (Domesday Book (1985) p 76)
Aissecome     (Domesday Book (1985) p 76)
Type
Inhabited place
Coordinates
50.6°N 3.533°W
Located in
Devon, England

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Ashcombe is a village and civil parish in the Teignbridge district of Devon, England, about six miles north of Teignmouth. The parish had a population of 77 according to the 2001 census. The village lies on the south-eastern side of the Haldon hills in the valley of the stream known as Dawlish Water.

The church which is dedicated to Saint Nectan has thirteenth-century lancets and a fourteenth-century chancel arch; the oak seats were carved in the sixteenth century.

The village was recorded in the Domesday Book.

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